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18 July 2015

Purcell Sill → Dike, Grinnell Glacier Cirque, Montana

The Neoproterozoic Purcell Sill is a stark, obvious black stripe in the strata of Glacier National Park. Here it is emerging from behind “The Salamander” glacier, above Grinnell Glacier Cirque: Zooming in, you can see the “baked” (bleached) zones above and below this concordant intrusion. But this time, during my visit to this special place, I noticed a discordant offshoot from the main sill: See it? Up there at the …

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