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small glacier hanging in there on northeastern Baffin Island

the swarm of pegmatite sills in the rock wall were injected during a prior mountain building episode or ancient continental collision way back in Proterozoic times

link to a pegmatite sample in my photostream flic.kr/p/duL3Zq link to my ABC Geology gallery

www.flickr.com/photos/31856336@N03/galleries/721576239751...
Date 22 July 2012, 12:27:09 (according to Exif data)
Source icy throne
Author Mike Beauregard from Nunavut, Canada
Camera location 66° 51′ 33.36″ N, 62° 12′ 58.54″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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