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Page 3: Taum Sauk Flood Scar (part 1)
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28: East Fork Black River. Note flat limestone bedding planes (newly exposed).
29: More limestone.
30: East Fork Black River. Note erosion on left and deposition of a bouldery point bar on right (looking upstream - reservoir on skyline)
31: Boulder conglomerate (or was it in situ deposition on a granite tor?).
32: The granite
33: Granite / sandstone
34: Weathering rind on granite
35: The view upstream.
36: Approaching the base of the scar.
37: Panorama from below the base of the scar
38: Base of the scar: this scour at the break in slope has filled in quite a bit.
39: Boulder conglomerate again.
40: Weathering rinds.
41: Weathering rinds.
42: And again.
43: Ripple marks in sandstone lenses around the granite boulders
44: Striations on the outcrop surface.
45: The striations point directly downhill, away from the dam.
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