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This episode is brought to you by spending time with people you love. Tonight I'll be reading a snoozy excerpt from Creation of the Teton landscape by David D. Love and John C. Reed, originally

published in 1968.

This booklet prepared by two members of the U.S. Geological Survey,

discusses how geologic phenomena are responsible for the magnificent scenery of the Teton region. Let's get cozy. Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes. Let's get cozy.

Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed. Now take a few deep breaths. An extraordinary story, visitors whose curiosity is wetted by this unusual and varied panorama are not satisfied

with only a few questions and answers. They sense that here, for the asking, is an extraordinary geologic, geo, earth, logic, science, story.

With a little direction, many subtle features become evident, features that otherwise might escape notice.

Here, for example, is a valley with an odd U shape.

There is a sheer face crisscrossed with light and dark colored rocks. On the valley floor is a tuft of pine trees that seem to be confined to one particular kind of rock. On the rolling hills is a layer of peculiar white

soil, the only soil in which coyote dens are common. All these are

geologically controlled phenomena.

In short, with a bit of initial guidance, the viewer gains an ability to observe and to understand so much

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