Eastern Mojave Vegetation California Highway 180  
 

Tom Schweich  

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  Probably best known as the Kings Canyon Highway, California Highway 180, starts in Mendota and runs east through Fresno to Kings Canyon National Park.
     

Mendota

 
 

Other Articles: CA Hwy 99: at CA Hwy 180 W  

Junction: California Highway 99 South
 

Locations: Fresno.  

Fresno

Junction: California Hwy 99
 

Other Articles: CA Hwy 99: at CA Hwy 180 E  

Junction: California Highway 99 North
      Kings Canyon National Park, Entrance Station

Other Articles: CA Hwy 198: at CA Hwy 180  

The Wye

 
      General Grant Grove

Literature Cited:
- Stock, Greg M., Robert S. Anderson, and Robert C. Finkel, 2004.  

Locations: Boyden Cavern. Kings River, South Fork.  

Boyden Cavern

Boyden Cavern is one of three caves on the South Fork of the Kings River from which sediments were dated by Stock, Anderson, and Finkel (2004) to estimate the rate of incision of the canyon. They found incision rates between 0.21 and 0.27 mm/year for the past 2.7 million years.

     

Cedar Grove

 
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Literature Cited

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Stock, Greg M., Robert S. Anderson, and Robert C. Finkel. 2004. Pace of landscape evolution in the Sierra Nevada, California, revealed by cosmogenic dating of cave sediments. Geology. 32(3):193-196. {TAS-pdf}

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Date and time this article was prepared: 5/15/2008 12:32:49 PM