Eastern Mojave Vegetation
By Tom Schweich
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| By Tom Schweich | |
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Resting Spring Range | Photograph taken May 24, 2004. This photograph is looking west from some small hills just west of Pahrump, Nevada. The little green sign in the center of the photo is the California state line.
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Chicago Valley and the Resting Spring Range, looking north. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
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Chicago Valley, looking south. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
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View of Shoshone from the east. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
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Generalized tectonic setting of the Precambrian-Cambrian margin of North America. | Many have drawn this diagram. This one is patterned after Corsetti and Hagadorn (2003).
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Southeastern tip of the Funeral Mountains. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
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Is this a landslide? | Photograph taken May 24, 2004. Every time I drive by this canyon at the very southeastern tip of the Funeral Mountains, I wonder whether it might be a landslide. Of course, I'll have to confess that I've not been sufficiently curious that I went to any effort to go look at it.
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Tecopa Lake beds between Tecopa and Shoshone. | Photograph taken May 24, 2004.
Amargosa River
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Looking north toward the Ibex Hills and Ibex Pass from the Amargosa River. |
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The Amargosa River where it crosses California Highway 127. |
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Hanging Gardens at the Amargosa Gorge. | View looking south of the "hanging Gardens" that have formed when waterfalls flowed from the contact at the base of a conglomerate. These ancient cascades with mineral-rich "hard water" have left travertine onyx drapes that contain impronts of fossil vegetation. The roadbed of theTonopah and Tidewater is seen in the middleground. Photograph taken from the purplish outcrop of Zabriskie Quartzite.
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Cave Spring (Fort Irwin)
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Cave Spring. | Between 1883 and 1887, Cave Spring was a water and rest stop for wagons loaded with borax from Death Valley (Vredenburgh, 1994). It also operated as an automobile rest stop on the main road to Death Valley from Barstow until the 1920s.
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China Ranch
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China Ranch Date Farm. | Great place to stop for a Date Shake.
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Death Valley
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Wildrose Graben | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Death Valley as seen from the Last Chance Range. | Photograph taken October 7, 2000. Ubehebe Crater is in the center of the photograph.
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The Nelson Range east of Cerro Gordo. | Photograph taken July 16, 2005.
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Looking up (East) into Nemo Canyon | Photograph taken 2-May-07. The mountain at right is Wildrose Peak.
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Looking down (West) Nemo Canyon | Photograph taken 2-May-07. The Argus Range is seen in the distance.
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Wildrose Spring | Photograph taken 2-May-07. There are picnic tables under the trees.
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Wildrose Spring | Photograph taken 2-May-07. There are picnic tables under the trees.
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Death Valley salt pan and alluvial fan from Dante's View. | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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The sign and teakettle at Teakettle Junction. |
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Scotty's Castle in northern Death Valley. |
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A bright clear morning at Dante's View | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Telescope Peak as seen from Dante's View | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Lowest point on California State Highway System, 242 feet below sea level. | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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The Billie Borate mine near Death Valley. | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Blackbrush vegetation at Emigrant Pas | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Looking west from Emigrant Pass | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Death Valley Museum |
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Looking east from Emigrant Pass | Photograph taken 2-May-07. The canyon at right is Wood Canyon.
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Corkscrew Peak from the valley floor. | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Death Valley Junction
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Bill Walsh and a T&T Ten-Wheeler | This photograph was sent to me by Nancy Walsh Herring. She writes, "My grandfather worked the Tonopah & Tidewater RR in the 1930's. I have attached a photo to this email of my grandfather, William (Bill) James Walsh standing next to the T&T (he is the one to the right). He lived at Death Valley Junction and my father and grandfather erected the flag pole that is still at Death Valley Junction today. My grandfather and father are both deceased and I am doing research on their lives. I thought you might enjoy an early picture." The location of the photograph is unknown.
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The Amargosa Opera House at Death Valley Junction. |
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Deep Springs Valley
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Deep Springs College in the distance. |
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Intermittent lake in Deep Springs Valley. |
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Geology field trip at an interesting outcrop. | Photograph taken 12-May-07. The locality across the road looks like a tight synclinal fold.
Dumont Dunes
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Dumont Dunes, as seen from California Highway 127 |
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Eagle Mountain
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Eagle Mountain in the Amargosa River Valley. |
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El Paso Mountains
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Sheep Tank | Field discussion of recent work in the Goler Formation of the El Paso Mountains.
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Sheep Tank | This was a field trip stop to review recent work in the Goler Formation.
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Eureka Valley
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Eureka Valley with the sand dunes at the south end. | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
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Garlock
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Group from the San Bernardino Museum learns the history of studies of the Garlock Fault | A group from the San Bernardino Museum learns the history of studies of the Garlock Fault from George I. Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey. George's article, as well as the field trip guide used by this group can be found in Calzia and Reynolds (1998), which is available from the San Bernardino County Museum.
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Looking North Along U. S. Highway 395 Near Nine Mile Canyon. | U. S. Highway 395 climbs the grade north out of Indian Wells Valley to Little Lake and Rose Valley. Red Hill can be seen in the distance.
Inyo Mountains
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Joshua trees in Joshua Flats, Inyo County, California | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
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Little Cow Horn Valley | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
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Looking into Owens Valley from Death Valley Road | Photograph taken October 7, 2000.
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Waucoba Saline Road | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
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So, is the road closed? Or Not? | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
Kingston Range
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Canyon in the Kingston Mountains. | In May 1998, I hiked up into this canyon in search of Kingston Mountains Ivesia (Ivesia patellifera). The purpose was to collect a fresh specimen for DNA studies by Barbara Ertter who studies this genus. It took me over an hour to climb up the boulder-strewn and rattlesnake-infested wash to the place shown here. Unfortunately, I chickened out when faced with climbing the slick rock face on the left. Back in the Herbarium, looking at this picture, we decided that I had walked right past the Ivesia, and didn't see it. Oh well ... maybe next year.
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Kingston Range as seen from Excelsior Mine Road. |
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Kingston Range, seen from Kingston Road, just north of Valley Wells. |
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Looking down toward the Beck Spring Mine in the Kingston Range. |
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Kingston Range from the northwest. |
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Kingston Range as seen in late afternoon from Emigrant Pass. |
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Last Chance Range
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Valley on east side of Last Chance Range. | Photograph taken October 7, 2000. Crankshaft Junction is just below the ridge at bottom right.
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Hanging Rock Canyon | Photograph taken October 7, 2000.
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View of Last Chance Range across the Eureka Valley | Photograph taken October 6, 2000.
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Crater, former mining town. | Photograph taken October 7, 2000.
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View of unknown mine from Last Chance Mountain. | Photograph taken October 7, 2000.
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Magruder Mountain
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Magruder Mountain, as seen from the Last Chance Range to the southwest. | Photograph taken October 7, 2000.
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Mesquite Mountains
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The Mesquite Mountains seen from the vicinity of Keany Pass. | While I did not recognize it when I photographed the mountain, I believe the Mesquite Mountains Thrust can be seen in the lower left.
Mono Basin
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Mono Basin and other nearby areas with floristic research | Map drawn 9-Oct-07.
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Panamint Mountains
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Panamint Mountains and Telescope Peak from Panamint Valley Road. |
Panamint Valley
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Panamint Valley and Panamint Range | Photograph taken 2-May-07.
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Northern Panamint Valley from Saline Valley Road. | The dunes are in the left middle ground, with Lake Hill and a dry lake in the center. Telescope Peak of the Panamint Range are in the background.
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Queen Valley
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US Highway 6 north through Queen Valley to Montgomery Pass | Photograph taken 11-May-07.
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Racetrack
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The Racetrack from Cerro Gordo. | Photograph taken July 16, 2005.
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The Racetrack and the Grandstand. | The Grandstand is an outcrop of resistant syenite surrounded by playa deposits, and thus would be termed an "inselberg."
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The Racetrack as seen from a distance. | The Racetrack is a dry lake, or playa, which is normally dry, but can be wet or be covered by several inches of water after a rainstorm. The valley containing the playa is called a bolson, which means purse in Spanish. Many geomorphic terms in the southwestern United States are Spanish in origin.
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Rock on The Racetrack |
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Rock on The Racetrack |
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Rock on The Racetrack. |
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Shoshone
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Moonrise over Shoshone | Photograph taken 1-May-07.
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Nighthawks in Shoshone. | Photograph taken 1-May-07. I assume these were Lesser Nighthawks, flying in the lights over Shoshone.
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Downtown Shoshone in the early morning. |
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Dugout in "Castles of Clay" |
Tule Spring
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Tule Spring, Alexander Hills in background. | This oasis may be formed by fine-grained materials dammed by vegetation in the low gradient California Valley.
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Walker Pass
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Walker Pass on a windy Spring afternoon. | The historical plaque at Walker Pass reads as follows: Walker's Pass Discovered by Joseph R. Walker, American trail-blazer, who left the San Joaquin Valley through this pass in 1834. This area was traversed by topographer Edward M. Kern, after whom the Kern River was named, while accompanying the Fremont expedition of 1845. After 1860 it became a mining freight route to Owens Valley. Dedicated April 25, 1937. Marker placed by Bakersfield Parlor No. 42 N.S.G.W., El Tejon Parlor No. N.S.G.W., Kern County Chamber of Commerce. State registered landmark No. 99.
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Westgard Pass
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Westgard Pass. | Westgard Pass is the only east-west route through the White-Inyo Mountains, and is the dividing line between the two mountain ranges.
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White Mountains
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Fish Lake Valley and the Silver Peak Range from Furnace Creek. | Photograph taken 11-May-07.
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Upper portion of a side canyon to Coldwater Canyon. | Photograph taken 13-May-07 in Coldwater Canyon. The long straight floor of the canyon occurs at the contact between two formations.
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