The layered strata of Mt. Rainier is visible in this closeup of the northwest flank of the mountain. It's been layered, uplifted, fractured, baked and stacked into a 14,409 foot pile of basalt and other igneous rocks and intrusions. Glaciers have cut into its flanks in every direction.

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