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Lydia and Ridgetop

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Former Mendenhall Fellow now USGS Research Geologist, Lydia Staisch, in the field measuring the Ringold formation stratigraphy, which is a syn-deformational unit that records uplift along the Saddle Mountains anticline (and fault). Lydia is standing beneath a caliche ledge in the upper part of the section. Photo credit: Harvey Kelsey, Humboldt State University.

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Public Domain.

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