Geology and water resources of the Harney Basin region, Oregon . ot conspicuous. Seemingly the conditionswere so delicately adjusted that a glacier was formed at the head of Kieger Canyon,but not in the neighboring canyons. This condition of delicate adjustment of eleva-tion and topographic conditions to the climate of the region is now manifest by thepresence of perennial snow banks in the shelter of northward-facing cliffs on the borderof Kieger Canyon and their absence on the borders of the neighboring canyons. WEATHERING. The processes of weathering and decay have been efficient in form-in
Geology and water resources of the Harney Basin region, Oregon . ot conspicuous. Seemingly the conditionswere so delicately adjusted that a glacier was formed at the head of Kieger Canyon,but not in the neighboring canyons. This condition of delicate adjustment of eleva-tion and topographic conditions to the climate of the region is now manifest by thepresence of perennial snow banks in the shelter of northward-facing cliffs on the borderof Kieger Canyon and their absence on the borders of the neighboring canyons. WEATHERING. The processes of weathering and decay have been efficient in form-ing many escarpments, especially along the valley borders. It isthought that the bluffs back of Harney and the escarpments ofWrights Point and of Windy Point are of such origin. In thesescarps the forms produced by the weathering of nearly horizontalbeds overlying softer tuffs is ideally developed. In Plate IV, A, is a Russell, I. C, Hanging valleys: Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 16, Feb., 1905, pp. 84-85. U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WATER-SUPPLY PAPER 231 PLATE IV. \y A. CHARACTERISTIC SCARP AT WEST EDGE OF HARNEY VALLEY.
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