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Beaded drainage with "Arrowhead" morphology

Location: Maguse River between Kinga and Maguse Lakes
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This is a photo taken at an altitude of ~300m and shows a classic example of the "arrowhead" morphology created by boulder deltas built into an ice melt depression on a mudboil-ornamented till plain. The process and forms are described under image 0116. See also images 0117 and 0118.












Date taken: summer 1973
Photo ID: 0114; GSC photo # 203010-M
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