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Rocky Mountain
Photograph by Enos Mills
 MOONLIGHT ON GRAND LAKE Photograph by U.S. Reclamation Service |
RECORDS OF THE GLACIERS
A FEATURE of this region is the readability of its records of glacial action during the ages when America was making. In few other spots do these evidences, in all their variety, make themselves so prominent to the casual eye.
There is scarcely any part of the eastern side where some enormous moraine does not force itself upon passing attention. One of the broad valleys, Moraine Park, is so named from a moraine built out for miles across the valley's floor by ancient parallel glaciers.
There are innumerable sparkling lakes, many of them nestling in bowls of solid granite that were hollowed out by glaciers. The gorges are walled in by spectacular glacial cirques or amphitheaters.
In short, this park is itself a primer of glacial geology whose simple, self-evident lessons immediately disclose the key to one of nature's chief scenic secrets.
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