Eastern Mojave Vegetation
By Tom Schweich
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Eastgate in Nevada 772 with Desatoya Mountains in background. |
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The Shoe Tree | Photograph taken June 2, 2005.
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Sand Mountain, as seen from US. Highway 50 | Sand Mountain is a large sand dune a half-mile north of U. S. Highway 50, about 26 miles east of Fallon, Nevada. Sand Mountain is 2 miles long, a mile wide and more than 600 feet high. This perfect hill of fine bleached sand has blown into a box canyon over thousands of years from the flats of Lake Lahontan, an ancient sea now dry. The huge pile of sand is available to ATV enthusiasts who buzz up and down the dune, with the constant winds covering the tracks in short order. About 10,000 years ago glaciers filled many of the valleys in the Sierra Nevada to the west. The cool, wet climate and runoff from these glaciers had created an immense inland lake now known as Lake Lahontan, covered some 8,500 square miles including most of northern and central Nevada and parts of Oregon, Utah, California and Idaho. But as the climate grew warmer and the glaciers retreated, the lake slowly started to dry up. About 4000 years ago the lake level dropped below where Sand Mountain now stands. All that remains are Pyramid and Walker lakes and a handful f dry lake beds such as the Humboldt and Carson sinks, the Black Rock Desert and Winnemucca Lake, near Pyramid Lake. Meanwhile quartz particles, which the glaciers had ground away from the hard Sierra granite, were washed down the Walker River and deposited in the river's delta. As the wind blew across the delta this sand was picked up and carried high into the air. More than thirty miles to the northeast, the wind was slowed by a large basin on the southwest flank of the Stillwater Range. With its force broken by the mountain, the wind's burden of sand would fall into this natural trap. Over the centuries Sand Mountain grew until it reached its present height of almost 600 feet. The wind is constantly changing the shape of Sand Mountain and sometimes the shifting of the sand will produce a soft rustling, or even an eerie booming sound. This unique characteristic has earned Sand Mountain its nickname of "Singing Mountain". The Sand Mountain blue butterfly (Euphilotes pallescens arenamontana) inhabits only this single sand dune in Churchill County.
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Churchill County, Fairview Peak
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View north from Fairview Peak Road. | Photograph taken June 2, 2005. The little hill in the middleground is Chalk Mountain. The mountain range on the left is the Stillwater Range, with Dixie Valley below them. To the right is the very southern end of the Clan Alpine Mountains.
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View from the top of the earthquake fault scarp. | Photograph taken June 2, 2005. I was standing on the top of the scarp. Cheryl is at the bottom of the scarp.
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Main scarp at Fairview Peak earthquake fault. | Photograph taken June 2, 2005.
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BLM sign at the earthquake faults. | Photograph taken June 2, 2005. When the energy from pressure built up underneath the Earth's thin crust is suddenly released, an earthquake occurs. At first the crust may just bend, But if the stress is great enough, the rocks will break and "snap" to a new position. This usually happens along fractures in the earth known as faults. If the fault lies close to the surface it may become visible following a large earthquake -- the area directly in front of you is an example of this. Between July and December 1954, six earthquakes and two major aftershocks rocked western Nevada and eastern California. The largest of these, measuring 7.3 on the Richter Scale, was centered seven miles west of here and happened on December 16th. These quakes were felt as far away as Elko, NV and Sacramento, CA. More than to miles of faulting were exposed on Fairview Peak and in the Stillwater Range to the northwest. In a matter of moments, the mountains lifted up an average of six feet relative to the surrounding valleys. In some places the mountains rose more than 20 feet! Try to imagine what it must have felt like, and how you would have reacted if you had been camping in this area that day. If you follow this road south, the exposed fault line is clearly visible in several places. Interpretive signs along the road provide more information. About four miles from here a short side road leads to a parking area next to the fault itself. Four-wheel drive vehicles are not usually required to reach this area, however buses and motor homes should stay on the main road.
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Clark County
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Looking west through Columbia Pass. | Photograph taken 27-May-2003. This is photograph number 1700 on my web site.
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Sandy Valley and the Mesquite Mountains. | This photo was taken from the radio towers near Potosi Mountains. The road through the middle of the photo is Kingston Road.
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Sandy Valley, looking east from the margin of the Mesquite Mountains. | Looking east, the Spring Mountains in the distance. Potosi Mountain in the distant left.
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Clark County, Crystal Pass
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Location of Crystal Pass, Nevada | Type locality of the Crystal Pass Limestone member of the Sultan Limestone.
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Clark County, Goodsprings
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Goodsprings, Nevada |
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Clark County, Monte Cristo Mine
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Approximate Location of the Monte Cristo Mine. | The USGS Quadrangle maps don't show the location of the Monte Cristo Mine, but the GNIS gives a latitude and longitude for it.
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Clark County, Pahrump Valley
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Cross country in southern Pahrump Valley. | Sandy Valley in the distance. Black Butte in the left middle ground, Potosi Mountain in left distance.
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Field trip stop in Pahrump Valley |
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View of Pahrump Valley, looking northwest. |
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Black Butte, Clark County, Nevada |
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Climbing out of Lovell Wash |
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Pahrump, as seen from the west. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004. We were heading west on Nevada 372 to Shoshone, pulled off the road, and followed a small track to the top of a hill.
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Pahrump, as seen from the south. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
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Clark County, Potosi Mountain
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Kingston Road south of Wilson Pass. |
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Kingston Road north of Wilson Pass. |
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Northern Potosi Valley. |
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Potosi Mountain from Nevada Highway 160. | images/0072_3301_0700_33.jpg
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View looking south in Potosi Valley. |
Clark County, Primm
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Primm, Nevada, as seen from the northeast slopes of Clark Mountain. |
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Clark County, Sheep Range
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View of the Sheep Range from Kyle Canyon Road. |
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Clark County, Spring Mountains
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Along the trail in the Spring Mountains. | Looking back at Mount Charleston, from the south side of Lee Canyon.
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Along the trail in the Spring Mountains. | This view of the nearly sheer wall of limestone is seen from the trail at the head of Lee Canyon.
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Mt Charleston in the Spring Mountains, Nevada. | Photograph taken in September 1998, from near Kyle Canyon Road.
Clark County, Stump Spring
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Stump Spring | Mount Charleston, with snow, and the Spring Mountains in the background.
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Douglas County
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Antelope Valley and the Sierra Nevada | Photograph taken May 26, 2004.
Elko County
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Wild horses in Overland Pass |
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Gallagher State Fish Hatchery in Ruby Valley |
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View northeast of Ruby Mountains from Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. |
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Cows along Nevada County Route 788. |
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View south of Smith Creek and Mound Valley. | Stopped just north of Jiggs specifically to take this photograph, of a view I noticed yesterday. The dirt road in the foreground follows Huntington Creek to Twin Bridges. This is the other end of the road where I saw the Larkspurs yesterday. After taking the photograph and driving down to the ranch, I saw the ranchers herding a few cows back into their fields. I assumed that a few of their cows had escaped from pastures in the night.
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Settlement of Ruby Valley |
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Larkspur (Delphinium) near Twin Bridges. |
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Sign showing route of Pony Express trail at south end of Ruby Mountains. |
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View of Elko from Elko Summit |
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Traffic jam in Jiggs, Nevada. | As I came around the bend into Jiggs, it became readily apparent why the road was littered with cow poop. The cowboys were using the road to move cows from pasture to pasture. I waited here a few minutes while they finished herding the cows into a field at right, then continued on my way. My car, of course, had a nice aromatic layer of cow poop in the wheel wells and on the rocker panels.
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Coyote at Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge. | When I drove out on the Brown Dike to the eastern side of the Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge I saw this coyote who, while keeping an eye on me, did not seem to be particularly concerned.
Elko County, Ruby Mountains
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View up Lamoille Canyon. |
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Looking north along Ruby Crest from Harrison Pass. |
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Upper reaches of Lamoille Canyon. | Beaver ponds in foreground.
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Smith Creek drainage, west side central Ruby Mountains. |
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Canyon on east side of Ruby Mountains | I think this may be Colonel Moore Canyon because I seem to remember stopping and backing up to this spot just before I passed Ruby Valley School.
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Looking West from Harrison Pass. |
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Harrison Pass Road. |
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View of Ruby Mountains from Elko Summit. |
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View down Lamoille Canyon |
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View of Ruby Mountains from US I-80. | The little bit of orange color in the lower right was a Sphaeralcea.
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Wind-clipped vegetation in Harrison Pass. |
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Esmeralda County
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Columbus Salt Marsh | Photograph taken 5-Jun-06.
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Cottontail Ranch brothel at Lida Junction. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Magruder Mountain from the east. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. This photograph was taken from near the intersection of Nevada Highway 266 and Nevada Highway 774, the road to Gold Point. Magruder Mountain in the right center. The range in right center are the Palmetto Mountains. Lida is in the valley between Magruder Mountain and the Palmetto Mountains.
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Lida | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Lida | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Lida Summit | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. Photograph looking west, as a storm was coming in. The distant mountains with snow are probably the southern end of the White Mountains.
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White Mountains in California seen from US Hwy95 near Tonopah, Nevada | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. I think the mountain in left center is Mount Barcroft, with Boundary Peak the last high peak to the right.
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The Sump, Esmeralda County, Nevada | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. Frank DeCourten in The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology University of Utah Press, 2003, waxes poetic about a night spent at the Sump with his students. It's a place of clear skies and majestic views in addtion to the many fossils in the mid-Cenozoic graveyard.
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Faulted lake beds in The Sump. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. The faulting is roughly parallel to the strike of the lake beds.
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Fish Lake Valley from the north. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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The Monocline, basalt-capped fanglomerate. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Fish Lake Valley and the White Mountains | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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The Crater, a cinder cone in Clayton Valley. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Location of Collections 409-417 near Pigeon Spring, Nevada. |
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Ecotone between Pinyon forest and Sagebrush | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. This is where I made collections numbered 386 to 398.
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White Mountains and Volcanic Hills across Columbus Salt Marsh | Photograph taken 5-Jun-06. US Highway 6 and Pinchot Creek pass along the base of the Volcanic Hills.
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Spring on Columbus Salt Marsh | Photograph taken 5-Jun-06.
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Nancy Walker grave near Pigeon Spring Mill | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. This is where I made collections numbered 404 to 407.
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Pigeon Spring Mill | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Postcard of The Crater near Blair, Nevada | Diane Bailey sent me this image of a postcard her great uncle sent from Blair, Nevada.
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Streambed on Palmetto Wash | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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View of Tonopah from the west. | Photograph taken 5-Jun-06.
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Patch of Sagebrush on the west side of Magruder Mountain. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. My collections 386 to 403 were made around the edges of this patch of Sagebrush.
Esmeralda County, Goldfield
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Goldfield Hotel | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. It was a cloudy day when we visited Goldfield. I had to work on the sky for a long time.
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Esmeralda County Courthouse | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Mine headframes in Goldfield, Nevada | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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View of Goldfield from the south. | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Esmeralda County, Silver Peak Range
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Rhyolite Ridge as seen from Coyote Pass | Photograph taken May 25, 2004.
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Location in Coyote Summit | Photograph taken May 25, 2004. This is where I collected numbers 418 to 423.
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