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Grey stony slope covered in loose angular rock fragments with patches of grass, rising to a smooth bare brownish summit, with distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky.

Pekulney UM desert

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Galina Ledneva

Geological Institute, RAS, Moscow, Russian Federation

Pekul'ney Range, Central Chukotka, Russia. Typical exposure of ultramafic cumulates and embedded them metamorphic rocks: eluvial - deluvial deposits with rare outcrops. For details see abstract EUG2012-6230 by Bazylev et al. submitted to GMPVS.1

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Field Geodynamics Interdisciplinary/Other Seismology Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology Tectonics and Structural Geology

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chukotka pekul'ney range ultramafic cumulates

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Credit: Galina Ledneva (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

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Type Image Format JPG Size 2.3 MB Aspect 4:3 Width 2592 px Height 1944 px Brand Canon Model A530 Exposure 8 mm f/6.3 1/250 s ISO 75 Coordinates 65.7036, 174.5674 Tint Light brownish gray Published 12 March 2012 Taken 1 August 2006

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