Cargo Muchacho Mountains
| Name: | Tumco Mine Area |
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| Date: | 9/3/2006 |
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| Location: | Cargo Muchacho Mountains |
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Here it can be seen how weathering and erosion has contributed to the removal of
mountains. This deposition of fine grain sand is of silicate parentage, and some time in the future will
become part of a sedimentary rock bed, or perhaps even part of a metamorphic rock. The ripples in the
sand demonstrate transportation, and deposition, and the cracks in the sand are evident of precipitation
of water, and the lithification process.
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