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The old cottage, scotland.. by rebekah murray

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FINGER LAKES—CENTRAL NEW YORK STATE

The Finger Lakes in Central New York State are 11 parallel lakes with long, narrow shapes. They are aligned north to south, and resemble fingers on a hand. The Iroquois believed that the lakes were evidence of marks from the Great Spirit’s hand. The lakes formed in the past two million years after carving by glaciers eroded pre-existing stream valleys in the region.

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Consolation Valley is a rather quiet place. The silence is only interrupted by rockfall as the ramparts of Mount Babel slowly crumble away. Under the surface, some of the limestone and quartzite boulders come to rest on the lakebed. The valley is off-the-charts beautiful and is a fascinating place to see geology at work. http://ift.tt/29F79Ss

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Nice view and a geologically interesting environment - these rocks, on the south shore of Crete, are very close to one of the active faults on the island that is pushing the whole block upward. The fault zone is just beyond those hills.

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