Comments on: Friday Rock Blogging: Glacial Polish

By: cowgirl

cowgirl — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:32:55 +0000

danls 4 the info… glaciers are NOT evil…. glacial polish is pretty…
omg im sooooo evil!!!!!!! muahhaha!!!
get a load of this cowboy!

By: yami

yami — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:50:00 +0000

And hoorah for that, or all the good hot springs would be crowded!

By: loyd

loyd — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 01:24:00 +0000

Most people visit Yosemite but never get to the really cool stuff on the other side.

By: yami

yami — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:26:00 +0000

Definitely! I’m a huge fan of Little Hot Creek. And you forgot to mention the Mono Lake tufa towers! Not glacial, of course, but still fabulous
But I thought Hot Creek was in the Long Valley Caldera, are you using “Mammoth Caldera” synonymously or are we talking about different places here?
I do think at *some* point it gets a little silly to keep going to Mammoth/Mono without ever visiting Yosemite National Park proper, which is what I’ve been doing… the next time I’m up there I want to finally visit the canonical bits of Yosemite.

By: loyd

loyd — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 10:14:00 +0000

There are lots of other fine examples of glaciation within Yosemite National Park. There’s cirques, terminal and lateral moraines, lots of polish and scarring, hanging valleys, and glacial erratics everywhere. The canyon Bridalveil Creek comes down to the precipice it forms the falls over is, in fact, a hanging valley.
I’m actually more excited by the eastern side of the park and the Mono to Mammoth Lakes region though. No only do you have glaciation but there’s active vulcanism (within the last 10,000 years) taking place. There’s cinder cones, plug domes, lava flows, volcanic glass sheets, ash piles, duft, and the currently active Mammoth Mountain volcano. Not to mention you get to hang out in the Mammoth Caldera where evidence of magma is easily seen in Hot Creek. Mammoth has even had some Co2 pockets make their way to the surface of lakes and kill off trees and wildlife.

By: Modulator

Modulator — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:37:00 +0000

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