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Photo ID: ivq0f9	Subject: Surface Processes	Description
	Canyons; Cliffs; Cuestas; Erosion Features; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Hogbacks; Homoclines; Kaibab Uplift; Landforms; Monoclines; Scarps; Slopes	A stream has carved a canyon in the Gray Mountain Monocline, a hogback ridge along the eastern flank of the Kaibab Uplift (along the south side of Arizona Highway 64).
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; Little Colorado River Gorge Latitude: 36.15 / Longitude: -111.86
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Photo ID: ixvvr6	Subject: Environment	Description
	Environmental Effects; Metals; Mining; Pollution; Reclamation; Remediation; Smelting; Waste Disposal; Waste Management	In the small town of San Manuel, Arizona, this is one of the world's largest and most productive copper smelters. In 1988 the former owners invested 149 million dollars to replace the old furnace with a new Outokumpu flash smelting furnace. Concentrate treatment capacity was expanded to a million tons a year and capture 98 percent of the sulfur.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; San Manuel Latitude: 32.6 / Longitude: -110.63
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Photo ID: ixvvob	Subject: Landscape	Description
	Best Managment Policies; Geomorphology; Land Use; Landforms; Mountains	The Huachuca Mountains are located directly west of the city of Sierra Vista, Arizona. These mountains range in elevation from 3,934 feet at the base to 9,455 feet at the top of Miller Peak. The Huachuca Mountains provide a study of a location that is experiencing rapid population growth in a formerly rural area. Sierra Vista's expansion is pushing population right up along the eastern base of the mountains and will provide an opportunity to study how growth along the urban-wildland interface affects wildfires.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; Sierra Vista; Huachuca Mountains Latitude: 31.49 / Longitude: -110.41
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Photo ID: h9hgmy	Subject: Space	Description
	Astronomy; Inner Planets; Outer Space; Planetology; Planets	The Image Processing Lab at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory produced this photomosaic of Mercury using computer software and techniques developed for use in processing planetary data.
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	JPL Credit Line: Copyright © NASA, JPL	North America
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Photo ID: ixvvl1	Subject: Lakes/Ponds	Description
	Aquifers; Groundwater; Halite; Lacustreine Features; Lacustrine Environment; Salt Deposits; Salt Lakes; Sodium Chloride; Spring-fed Lakes	This is New Mexico's spring-fed Zuni Salt Lake which concentrates salt and is considered by the Zuni people to be the sacred Ma’l Oyattsik’i, the Salt Woman. The Salt Woman is now threatened by the Salt River Project. The nation’s third-largest public utility is seeking to open an 18,000-acre strip mine at Fence Lake, ten miles from Zuni Salt Lake. To settle its coal dust, the Salt River Project plans to pump 85 gallons of water a minute from the aquifers that feed the lake for the 40 years of the mine’s planned operation.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; New Mexico; Zuni Salt Lake
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Photo ID: ixvvhu	Subject: Rivers	Description
	Braided Channels; Braided Streams; Drainage Patterns; Ephemeral Streams; Erosion; Floodplains; Fluvial Environment; Fluvial Features; Riparian Environment; Saguaro National Park; Sonora Desert	Arizona's Santa Cruz River drains most of Saguaro National Park but since this is part of the Sonora Desert, it is an ephemeral stream in many places. The town of Pantano, Arizona is seen in the left-center of the Photograph.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; Pantano; Santa Cruz River Latitude: 32 / Longitude: -110.58
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Photo ID: ixvv7v	Subject: Landscape	Description
	Erosion Environment; Erosion Features; Geomorphology; Landforms; Mass Movement; Mass Wasting; Mountain Ranges; Mountains; Slope Formation; Slopes	Extending 30 mi south from Cuba through Sandoval and Rio Arriba Counties, and directly east of the Rio Puerco, the Nacimiento Mountains prominent points include Pajarito Peak (9,040 ft), San Miguel Mt. (9,473 ft) and Nacimiento Peak (9,801 ft). The range is partly within the Santa Fe National Forest.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; New Mexico; Nacimiento Mountains Latitude: 36.03 / Longitude: -106.85
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Photo ID: ixvv43	Subject: Floods	Description
	Environmental Geology; Flooding; Geologic Hazards; Geomrophology; Hydrology; Reservoirs; Rivers; Streams; Surface Water	Almost surrounded by mountains, the level land at Gila Bend, Arizona makes an excellent catch basin for excess rainfall.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; Gila Bend Latitude: 32.93 / Longitude: -112.7
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Photo ID: ixvv1p	Subject: Dunes	Description
	Eolian Features; Erosion Features; Gypsum; Gypsum; Ripple Marks; Sand; Sedimentology; Sediments; Surface Features; Tularosa Basin	The gypsum deposited in this Pleistocene lake bed has been piled into dunes by the wind here at New Mexico's White Sands National Monument.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; New Mexico; White Sands National Monument Latitude: 32.88 / Longitude: -106.2
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Photo ID: ixvuy3	Subject: Rivers	Description
	Anastomosing Streams; Braided Streams; Channels; Deposition; Floodplains; Fluvial Environment; Fluvial Features; Geomorphology; Meanders; Railroads; Riparian Environment; Sediment Transport; Sedimentation; Surface Water	The Santa Fe Railroad tracks come close to the bank of the Little Colorado River here in Arizona.
	Photographer	Location
	Michael Collier Credit Line: Copyright © Michael Collier	North America; United States; Arizona; Little Colorado River Latitude: 34.75 / Longitude: 109.89
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