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Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
I believe this is Mt. Moran, and the black streak at the top is called the Black Dike, left over from the days when the mountains were still flat ground.  Somewhere a few million years back, the land on the west side of the fault uplifted and turned nearly vertical.
©2003, Jeffrey L. Cooper

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