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$Baring Creek flows through a very narrow gorge, called Sunrift Gorge, in Glacier National Park, Montana. The gorge has very smooth, straight sides because it eroded along vertical fractures in the rock known as joints. Sunrift Gorge began to form after large Pleistocene glaciers began to retreat from that area and with a maximum cut down rate of 0.003 inch per year, this gorge is the result of several millions of years of erosion.$

$The sunrise lights up Eagle Falls which flows high above Emerald Bay and Lake Tahoe on the border of California and Nevada. Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the United States and the sixteenth deepest in the world, with a maximum depth of 1,645 feet (501 meters). The lake was formed by a fracture in the Earth's crust that resulted in the Sierra Nevada mountains and Carson Range (visible in the background).$