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Shocked quartz grains, with fissures filled with meltglass
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Legions of icebergs brought the Atlantic circulation to its knees during the last glacial period.
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Meandering rivers create a dynamic landscape, depositing sand bars and eroding steep banks as they undulate across their floodplains.
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The CoastSnap cradle on the steps to East Campus Beach
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Cambrian Sawatch sandstone from the Sauk Transgression caps 1 billion-year-old Pikes Peak granite (pink) marking the Great Unconformity in a roadcut in Manitou Springs, Colorado.