Lake Pleasant
, on a slow day, looking northwest. The
Hieroglyphic Mountains
form the immediate background; the Bradshaw Mountains are in the distance. Very low water in this man-made reservoir, behind New Waddell Dam, exposes
Precambrian
metamorphic
rocks.
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