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ALASKA

Mendenhall Valley and Auke Lake from above

Mendenhall Glacier in the summer

Mendenhall Glacier in the winter

Mendenhall towers

Juneau Icefield

Herbert Glacier

Juneau Icefield

Avalanche path - Looking from Douglas Island to Juneau

Striation marks - Mendenhall Valley

Bedrock smoothed by past glacial activity - Herbert glacier valley

Outwash plain - Herbert glacier valley

Fresh silty/sandy fluvioglacial sediments - Herbert glacier valley

Initial soil formation on coarse fluvioglacial sediments - Herbert glacier valley

A forest covering a moraine - Herbert glacier valley

An erratic covered by a thick moss carpet

Sequence of coarse/fine sand alluvial deposits - Eagle river

Sandy alluvial deposits - Eagle river
I will repost this photo to keep track on that tree ;)

Thick forest soil
A well-developed Andic Haplocryod formed from a metavolcanic rock

Robust root system

Massive uprooting
A very common feature in these forests, usually taking off the first few centimeters of soil.

Montain hemlock anchoring on a boulder!

Coastal erosion

Physical weathering - rock cracking

Redoximorphic features - Iron linning on larger pores and horizon transitions.

Redoximorphic features - Iron precipitation on former root channels
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