Continental metamorphic core complexes are often, and appropriately, called "turtlebacks." Here in Death Valley, the domed, gray core complex of mid-crustal mylonites and breccias at right is separated from brown upper crustal volcanics and sediments by the northwest-dipping Copper Canyon detachment fault. Width of view is about a kilometer along the contact with the alluvial plain in the foreground.
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