. Rules and Regulations: Glacier National Park . y r-. A B Diagkam 2.—Showing form of a stream-cut valley (A) and of the same valley (B) after it has been occupied by a glacier. or band; one of the characteristic spectacles in all parts of GlacierNational Park. This is called the diorite intrusion. It is as hardas granite. In fact it is very much like granite, indeed. It gotthere by bursting up from below when it was fluid hot and spread-ing a layer all over what was then the bottom of the sea. W henthis cooled and hardened more limestone was deposited on top of it,which is why it now looks li
. Rules and Regulations: Glacier National Park . y r-. A B Diagkam 2.—Showing form of a stream-cut valley (A) and of the same valley (B) after it has been occupied by a glacier. or band; one of the characteristic spectacles in all parts of GlacierNational Park. This is called the diorite intrusion. It is as hardas granite. In fact it is very much like granite, indeed. It gotthere by bursting up from below when it was fluid hot and spread-ing a layer all over what was then the bottom of the sea. W henthis cooled and hardened more limestone was deposited on top of it,which is why it now looks like a horizontal ribbon running throughthose lofty gray limestone precipices. In some parts of the park near the north there are remnants ofother strata which surmounted the Siyeh limestone, but they are soinfrequent that they interest only the geologists. The four stratamentioned above are, however, plain to every eye. Now, when these vividly colored rocks were lifted high in the airfrom their first resting place in the sea bottom, and then cracked
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