POTD July 2, 2013: White Pine rock slide, Little Cottonwood Canyon, Salt Lake County, Utah

 Southeast of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah
Photographer: Michael Vanden Berg

The White Pine rock slide covers the floor of Little Cottonwood Canyon with boulders of granitic rock of the Tertiary-age Little Cottonwood stock. These rocks broke loose from the north side of the glacially-carved canyon several thousand years ago.