GSA Today
Volume 33, Issue 3-4
View of Hole in the Mountain Peak in the Ruby Mountain–East Humboldt Range metamorphic core complex, Nevada, USA.
This cliff face is comprised of strongly sheared and attenuated
Neoproterozoic (lower benched cliffs) through Ordovician (upper
white cliffs) metasedimentary rocks, heavily intruded by Cenozoic
intrusions (large dark bodies, such as in the upper left).
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