Eastern Mojave Vegetation | U. S. Highway 395 |
| Tom Schweich |
Topics in this Article: Literature Cited | (No Preface)
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Canada above …. | Washington below ….
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| LaurierBeginning of US Highway 395. |
| Kettle Falls
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Junction: U. S. Highway 2 |
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| SpokaneJunction: U. S. Interstate 90, East. |
Junction: U. S. Interstate 90, West. |
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| Pasco
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Bridge over Columbia River. |
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| Kennewick
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Junction: U. S. Interstate 82, North. |
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Washington above … | Columbia River Oregon below …
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| UmatillaJunction: U. S. Interstate 82, South. |
| PendletonJunction: U. S. Interstate 84, East. |
| Mt. Vernon
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| John Day
| Other Articles: U. S. Highway 20: 062000
Junction: US Highway 20, east to Idaho near Nyssa. |
| Other Articles: Oregon Highway 78: at US Hwy 395 Locations: Burns. | Burns | Other Articles: U. S. Highway 20: Riley Junction: US
Highway 20, west to Bend, then Albany, and ultimately Newport, Oregon.
| | Literature Cited: Locations: Alkali Lake. Alkali Lake Dunes. Horror Spring. Hutton Spring.
| Alkali LakeAlkali Lake and Dunes, and Hutton Spring, to the west.Bruce Pavlik's (1985) review of sand dune flora of the western United States included the Alkali Lake Dunes as its northernmost locality. Hutton Spring, on the northwest margin of Alkali Lake, is the sole habitat of the Hutton tui chub, classified as a threatened subspecies by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On the southwestern margin of Alkali Lake is a pretty messy chemical waste disposal site. About 25,000 drums of pesticide manufacturing waste were disposed of here in the late 1960s and 1970s. In 1976, the drums were crushed and buried in place in shallow trenches and fenced. Current analysis concludes that the site does not present a significant risk to the public or the environment. |
| Lakeview
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| New Pine CreekOregon above …California below … |
New Pine Creek Winery | |
Fandango Pass Road | | Locations: Warner Mountains.
North Warner Mountains to the east. |
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Junction: California Highway 299, east, to Cedarville. |
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| AlturasJunction: California Highway 299, west to Redding, and ultimately Eureka, California.
| Locations: Warner Mountains.
South Warner Mountains to the east. |
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| LikelyHome of the "Most Likely Café." |
Junction: Lassen County Road A3. |
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Junction: California Highway 36, west to Red Bluff, and ultimately Scotia on US Highway 101.
| Susanville is 3 miles west on California Highway 36. |
Junction: Lassen County Road A3. |
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| Honey Lake
| Other Articles: California Highway 70: at US Hwy 395 | Hallelujah JunctionJunction: California Highway 70, west over Beckwourth Pass into Sierra Valley, the headwaters of the Feather River, and the northern terminus of California Highway 49. |
California above… | Nevada below …
| Other Articles: Interstate 80: at US Hwy 395 | RenoJunction: U. S. Interstate 80, west to San Francisco, or east across Nevada.
| Other Articles: Nevada Highway 431: at US Hwy 395
Junction: Nevada Highway 431, the Mount Rose Highway. |
| Other Articles: U. S. Highway 50: at US hwy 395 N
Junction: U. S. Highway 50, east across central Nevada.
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| Carson City
| Other Articles: U. S. Highway 50: at US hwy 395 N
Junction: U. S. Highway 50, west to Lake Tahoe and Sacramento.
| | Other Articles: Nevada Highway 88: 90000 Junction: Nevada
Highway 88, south to the Nevada-California border and California Highway 88, the Carson Pass highway.
| | Locations: Minden.
| Minden
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Literature Cited: Locations: Double Springs Flat.
Double Springs Flat | |
| Holbrook JunctionFrom Holbrook Junction south to Sonora Junction, U. S. Highway 395 follows the course of the West Walker River. | Other Articles: Nevada Highway 208: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Nevada
Highway 208, east and then north to Yerington. |
| Locations: Topaz Lake.
| Topaz LakeTopaz Lake is an artificial lake in the northwest corner of fault-bounded Antelope Valley.
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Nevada above … | California below …
| Beginning of CA Highway 89 at US Hwy 395. Other Articles: California Highway 89: at US Hwy 395 Junction:
California Highway 89, over Monitor Pass, north on the west side of Lake Tahoe to Truckee, Lassen National Park, and ultimately to Mount Shasta.
| | Literature Cited: Locations: Tollhouse Flat.
At Tollhouse Flat, on the east side of the West Walker River, is a reference section for the Tollhouse Flat Member of the Eureka Valley Tuff, as designated by Noble, et al. (1974).
| | Sweetwater Mountains from Leavitt Falls.
Locations: Sweetwater Mountains. | Sweetwater Mountains | Locations: West Walker River.
From Sonora Junction northward to Topaz Lake, U. S. Highway 395 follows the course of the West Walker River.
| | Other Articles: CA Highway 108: at US Hwy 395 | Sonora Junction:Junction: California Highway 108, west over Sonora Pass, to Sonora, Oakdale, and Modesto. | Locations: Fales Hot Springs.
Fales Hot Springs, south of highway. |
| Panorama of Bridgeport Valley
Bridgeport Valley, just west of Bridgeport
Other Articles: Field Notes: 4-Jun-06 near Bridgeport 4-Jun-06 near Bridgeport Locations: By-Day Creek. At the northwest edge of Bridgeport Valley, there is the Bridgeport Ranger Station on the north side of the highway, and a little road to a small hill labelled "heliport" that has a nice view of Bridgeport Valley. | Here I also found the Bridgeport Remote Automated Weather Station (RAWS). Current data can be obtained from: http://raws.wrh.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/roman/meso_base.cgi?stn=BPOC1. This little road could be followed about 3/4 mile southwest to the mouth of By-Day Creek. | Literature Cited: Locations: Bridgeport Valley. | Bridgeport Valley
| Other Articles: California Highway 182: at US Hwy 395 Locations: Bridgeport. East Walker River.
| BridgeportJunction: California Highway 182, north past Bridgeport Reservoir and down the East Walker River Canyon to the California - Nevada border.U. S. Highway 395 crosses the East Walker River at Bridgeport. | Locations: Willow Springs.
Willow Springs | | Other Articles: California Highway 270: at US Hwy 395 Junction:
California Highway 270 "Bodie Road". | Bodie is about 13 miles to the east. |
View north on
US Hwy 395 from Dog Town Other Articles: Field Notes: 20070626689
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Scenic
Highway plaque at Dog Town Other Articles: Field Notes: 20070626690
Edge of a Dream: Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway plaque.
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Plaque Dog Town
Other Articles: Field Notes: 20070626690 at Dog Town Locations: Dog Town. | Dog Town |
Scenic
Highway plaque at Dog Town Other Articles: Field Notes: near Dog Town
Boom and Bust: Eastern Sierra Scenic Byway plaque.
| | Other Articles: Virginia Lakes Road: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Virginia
Lakes Road | Virginia Lakes is 6 miles to the southwest.
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East Walker River drainage and Bridgeport Valley to the north. |
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Other Articles: Mono Basin Flora: at Conway Summit Locations: Conway Summit. Mono Basin.
Walker River basin above, to the north… | Conway Summit, elevation: 8143 ft., 2482 m. Mono Basin below, to the south … | Locations: Mono Basin.
Mono Basin to the south. | | Panorama of Mono Lake near Conway Summit Other Articles: Field Notes: 4-Jun_06 near Conway Summit
Mono Lake Vista | | West
shoreline of Mono Lake. Other Articles: Field Notes: 4-Jun-06 near Conway Summit |
| Locations: Mono Diggings.
Road to Mono Diggings. | | Other Articles: Conway Ranch Road: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Conway
Ranch Road | | Literature Cited: Locations: Copper Mountain.
Copper Mountain and its ridge form the north wall of Lundy Canyon.
| | Locations: Wilson Creek.
Crossing Wilson Creek. | | Other Articles: Mill Creek Powerhouse Road: at US Hwy 395
Junction: Mill Creek Powerhouse Road |
| Other Articles: California Highway 167: at US Hwy 395 north of Lee Vining Lundy Lake Road: at US Hwy 395
Junction: |
| Locations: Mill Creek.
Crossing Mill Creek. | | Literature Cited: Locations: Thompson Ranch. Thompson Ranch to the
west of the highway. | |
Junction: Thompson Road |
| Locations: Dechambeau Creek.
Crossing Dechambeau Creek. |
| Other Articles: Cemetery Road: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Cemetery
Road | | Locations: Mono Inn.
| Mono Inn
| Grave of Adeline Carson Stilts Other Articles: Field Notes: 24-Jun-07 on US Hwy 395 |
| Tioga Lodge, site of former Mono Lake Post Office
Other Articles: Field Notes: 20070625040 Locations: Hammond Station. Mono Lake Post Office. Tioga Lodge.
| Tioga LodgeThe present day Tioga Lodge was the location of Hammond Station, or "Hammonds," as well as the Mono Lake Post Office.Many plant collections use this location as a point of reference. | Other Articles: Picnic Grounds Road: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Picnic
Grounds Road | | Memorial Plaque for Sheriff James P. Dolan Other Articles: Field Notes: 24-Jun-07 at Picnic Grounds Beach Near the Picnic
Grounds is the memorial plaque for Sheriff James P. Dolan. |
| Looking north on US Highway 395
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| El
Mono Hotel and Latte Da Coffee Café
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| Literature Cited: Other Articles: Field Notes: 6 Oct 06 at Lee Vining Locations: Lee Vining.
| Lee ViningThe town is named for Lee (Leroy) Vining of Laporte, Indiana, who came to California in 1852 in search of gold. Vining settled on the creek named for him and operated a sawmill (Gudde, 1969, p. 175). | Downtown Lee
Vining. Other Articles: Field Notes: 5-Jun-06 in Lee Vining
| | Mono Market
in Lee Vining | | Locations: Lee Vining Creek.
Crossing Lee Vining Creek. |
| Other Articles: California Highway 120: near Lee Vining
Junction: California Highway 120, west through Yosemite National Park.
| | Other Articles: Test Station Road: at US Hwy 395 Junction: Test
Station Road, east to the south shore of Mono Lake, to South Tufa.
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Junction: Horse Meadows Road, generally west between the south moraine of Lee Vining Canyon, and Williams Butte.
| | Locations: Williams Butte.
Williams Butte to the west |
| Other Articles: Oil Plant Road: at US Hwy 395 Rush Creek Road: at US Hwy 395
Junction:
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| Williams
Butte from US Hwy 395 Other Articles: Field Notes: 20070625070 Locations: Williams Butte. Williams Butte to the northwest. |
| View southwest from US Highway 395 Other Articles: Field Notes: 20060923020
View to the southwest of Parker Canyon and June Lakes Canyon. |
| Other Articles: California Highway 158: at US Hwy 395
| North June Lake JunctionJunction: California Highway 158
| Locations: Rush Creek.
Crossing Rush Creek. | | Other Articles: California Highway 120: at US Hwy 395 Junction:
California Highway 120, east to Benton at US Highway 6. |
| Grave of the Unknown Prospector Other Articles: Field Notes: 2-Aug-08 in Pumice Valley Grave
of the Unknown Prospector, dedicated in 2003. It seems to me, though, that before Caltrans rebuilt this intersection, the memorial at this site was the "Grave of the Unknown Fisherman."
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Buttes Other Articles: Field Notes: 23 Sep 06 at Vista Point Locations: Aeolian Buttes. Vista Point. Aeolian
Buttes to the east, between the highway and Mono Craters. |
| Other Articles: California Highway 158: at US Hwy 395
| South June Lake JunctionJunction: California Highway 158, west to June Lake.
| Literature Cited: Locations: Wilson Butte. Wilson Butte on west
side of highway. | | Locations: Mono Basin.
Mono Basin to the north. | | Other Articles: Mono Basin Flora: definition of Mono Basin Locations: Deadman Summit. Mono Basin above, to
the north … | Deadman Summit. Elevation: 8041 ft. Owens River basin below, to the south. | Locations: Deadman Creek.
Crossing Deadman Creek | |
Junction: Mammoth Lakes Scenic Loop Road, also known as the Mammoth Lakes Volcanic Escape Route.
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Locations: Smokey Bear Flat.
Smokey Bear Flat | | Other Articles: Old Highway 395: at US Hwy 395 N Junction: Old
Highway 395, North | | Literature Cited: Locations: Basalt Canyon. Cross creek that
drains Basalt Canyon to the west. Site of exploration for geothermal fluids to bring to Casa Diablo Hot Springs.
| | Locations: Casa Diablo Hot Springs. Casa Diablo Hot Springs and power
plant to the east. | | Other Articles: California Highway 203: 10000 Junction:
California Highway 203, west to Mammoth Lakes and the Devils Postpile National Monument.
| | Other Articles: Old Highway 395: at US Hwy 395 S Junction: Old
Highway 305, South | | Literature Cited: Other Articles: Glossary: wollastonite Locations: Laurel Mountain. | Laurel Mountain.Laurel Mountain is one of the best-exposed paleohydrothermal systems yet studied. Lackey and Valley (2004) evaluated fluid flow during contact metamorphism that caused wollastonite growth in calcareous metasandstones at Laurel Mountain in the Mount Morrison pendant at the eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California. |
Junction: Owens River Road |
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| Long Valley CalderaThe U. S. G. S. operates a general information web site: Long Valley Caldera Location and Background Page | Locations: Convict Lake.
Junction: Convict Lake River Road |
| Locations: McGee Mountain.
McGee Mountain | | Lake Crowley and the White Mountains
Locations: Lake Crowley. | Lake Crowley | Literature Cited: Big Pumice Cut
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| Tom's Place
| Other Articles: U. S. Highway 6: in Bishop Locations: Bishop. Junction: U. S. Highway 6,
north east to Tonopah and Ely, Nevada. |
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older house in Bishop Other Articles: Field Notes: 17-Jul-05 at Bishop Older house on the main street of
Bishop. | | Jack's
Restaurant, breakfast was pretty good. Other Articles: Field Notes: 17-Jul-05 at Bishop
Jack's Restaurant. I had breakfast here once. It was pretty good.
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| Mt. Tom, 12 miles west of Bishop, Inyuo County, California
Other Articles: Glossary: roof_pendant Locations: Mount Tom. Mount Tom is 12 miles west of
Bishop. The dark rocks on the top of Mt Tom are Paleozoic metamorphic rocks that have been intruded by Mesozoic granite batholith.
| | Other Articles: California Highway 168: at Big Pine | Big PineJunction: California Highway 168, east over Westgard Pass and through Deep Springs Valley into Fish Lake Valley. | Literature Cited: Locations: Tinemaha Reservoir.
Tinemaha Reservoir to east side of the highway. |
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DeLorme's Northern California Atlas and Gazetteer above | 37° North. DeLorme's Southern California Atlas and Gazetteer below. | Southern
Pacific #18 in Independence. Other Articles: Field Notes: 20050716300 Locations: Independence.
| | Literature Cited: Locations: Independence.
| IndependenceThe Mary Austin house in Independence. Mary Austin wrote many books about the desert, the most well-known is The Land of Little Rain. | Literature Cited: Locations: Manzanar.
| ManzanarManzanar was an one of ten internment camps where 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were sent to live during World War II. Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's 1973 book, Farewell to Manzanar, is a very readable account of one young woman's experience there. | Literature Cited: Locations: Alabama Gates Paleoseismic Site. Alabama Gates Paleoseismic
Site. | Bacon and Pezzopane (2007) excavated three fault trenches and one 2-m deep pit within about 10-20 m of each other along the north-striking fault trace near Alabama Gates. | Literature Cited: Locations: Quaker Paleoseismic Site.
Quaker Paleoseismic Site. | Bacon and Pezzopane (2007) excavated four fault trenches within 20-50 m of one another along a 100-m length of the Owens Valley fault. Three stratigraphic pits, each 3-4 m in depth, were excavated on nearby geomorphic surfaces in order to map the unfaulted stratigraphy. | Mount Whitney. Locations: Lone Pine.
| Lone PineI left Lone Pine early one May morning, bound for the Nelson Range and Hunter Mountain. The sun had just come up over the Inyo Mountains and was shining stongly. I pulled over just to take this picture. | Other Articles: California Highway 136: at US Hwy 395 Junction:
California Highway 136, to California Highway 190 and Death Valley.
| | Locations: Carroll Creek.
Carroll Creek. | Annie M. Alexander and Louise Kellogg collected Salvia dorrii on the mesa above Carroll Creek Canyon. | Locations: Bartlett.
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| Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company at Bartlett, on Owens Lake.
Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Jul-05
The margin of Owens Lake is lined with industrial plants in various states of decay.
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across Owens Lake to Cerro Gordo. Other Articles: Field Notes: 15-Jul-05 Locations: Cerro Gordo. Owens Lake.
For 16 miles (26 km), US Highway 395 passes along the western shore of Owens (Dry) Lake.
| | Locations: Coso Range.
Coso Range to the east. | | Other Articles: CA Hwy 190: at Olancha Locations: Olancha. | OlanchaJunction: California Highway 190, east to Death Valley.
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North Haiwee Reservoir | |
South Haiwee Reservoir | |
Dunmovin | |
Coso Junction | |
Red Hill | | Locations: Rose Valley.
| Rose Valley
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Little Lake (lake) | |
Little Lake (populated place) |
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Looking North Along U. S. Highway 395 Near Nine Mile Canyon.
Extreme northern end
of Indian Wells Valley. | |
Junction: Nine Mile Canyon Road |
| Other Articles: California Highway 14: at US Hwy 395
Junction: California Highway 14, south to Los Angeles. |
| Other Articles: CA Hwy 178: 52000 Locations: Inyokern. | InyokernJunction: California Highway 178, east to Death Valley, or west over Walker Pass to Bakersfield. | Other Articles: Searles Station Road: 16000 Junction: Searles
Station Road | | Other Articles: Garlock Road: 20000 Junction: Garlock
Road, to Garlock and Red Rock Canyon via Redrock Randsburg Road and CA Hwy 14.
| | Other Articles: Redrock Randsburg Road: 25000 Junction: Redrock
Randsburg Road, to Garlock and Red Rock Canyon via California Highway 14.
| | Locations: Johannesburg.
| Johannesburg
| Other Articles: Trona Road: 36000 Junction: Trona
Road | | Locations: Red Mountain.
| Red MountainRed Mountain is the name of the directly east of the highway. It is also the name of the small town located on US Hwy 395 about 23 miles north of Kramer Junction and 23 miles south of Ridgecrest. One of three active ghost towns in this immediate area: Randsburg, Johanesburg, and Red Mountain. Population 130 people. | Other Articles: California Highway 58: in Kramer Jct Locations: Kramer Junction. | Kramer JunctionJunction: California Highway 58, west to Bakersfield and ultimately US Highway 101 near Santa Margarita, or east to Barstow. | Literature Cited: Locations: Kramer Hills. Kramer Hills |
| Other Articles: California Highway 18: at US Hwy 395
Junction: California Highway 18 |
| Other Articles: Interstate 15: at US Hwy 395 Junction: U. S.
Interstate 15, south through San Bernardino to San Diego. |
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| Literature CitedA list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
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| Austin, Mary Hunter. 1903. The Land of Little Rain. Republished 1997.. The entire text of this book is also available at: UC Berkeley. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Bacon, Steven N., and Silvio K. Pezzopane. 2007. A 25,000-year record of earthquakes on the Owens Valley fault near Lone Pine, California: Implications for recurrence intervals, slip rates, and segementation models. GSA Bulletin. 119(7/8):823-847. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Birkeland, P. W., R. M. Burke, and A. L. Walker. 1980. Soils and subsurface rock-weathering features of Sherwin and pre-Sherwin glacial deposits, eastern Sierra Nevada, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 91: 238-244. {TAS} |
| Bureau of Land Management. 2005. Basalt Canyon Geothermal Pipeline Project Environmental Assessment and Draft Environmental Impact Report. BLM EA Number: CA-017-05-51, California Clearinghouse Number 2003092101. Bishop, California: Bureau of Land Management, June 2005. ... Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Bursik, M., C. Renshaw, J. McCalpin, and M. Berry. 2002. A Volcanotectonic Cascade: Activation of Range Front Faulting and Eruptions by Dike Intrusion, Mono Basin-Long Valley Caldera, CA, USA. Journal of Geophysical Research. 108(B8):1-8. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| California Department of Conservation. 2002. Mono County Ranch Management Tour. RCD Outlook. Resource Conservation District (RCD) Assistance Program. 2(2):2-3. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Dohrenwend, J. C. 1982. Map Showing Late Cenozoic Faults in the Walker Lake 1° By 2° Quadrangle, Nevada - California. Miscellaneous Field Studies Map MF-1382-D. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survey, 1982. {TAS-map} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Greene, David C., Calvin H. Stevens, and James M. Wise. 1997. The Laurel-Convict fault, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: A Permo-Triassic left-lateral fault, not a Cretaceous intrabatholithic break. GSA Bulletin. 109(4):483-488. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Gudde, Erwin G. 1969 (3rd Ed.). California Place Names. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki, and James D. Houston. 1973. Farewell to Manzanar. New York: Bantam Books. Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Lackey, Jade Star, and John W. Valley. 2004. Complex patterns of fluid flow during wollastonite formation in calcareous sandstone at Laurel Mountain, Mount Morrison Pendant, California. GSA Bulletin. 116(1/2):6.93. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Linn, Jonathan K., J. Douglas Walker, and John M. Bartley. 2002. Late Cenozoic crustal contraction in the Kramer Hills, west-central Mojave Desert, California. pp. 161-172 in Glazner, Allen F., Douglas Walker, and John M. Bartley, 2002. Geologic evolution of the Mojave Desert and southwestern Basin and Range. Memoir 195. Boulder, CA: Geological Society of America, 2002. ... Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Noble, Donald C., David B. Slemmons, Marjorie KK. Korringa, William R. Dickinson, Yehya Al-Rawi, and Edwin H. McKee. 1974. Eureka Valley Tuff, East-Central California and Adjacent Nevada. Geology. 2(3):139-142. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Pavlik, Bruce Michael. 1985. Sand dune flora of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts of California, Nevada, and Oregon. Madrońo. 32(4):197-213. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Schwarz, Bob. 2005. Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Disposal Site. Fact Sheet -- July 2005. The Dalles, OR: State of Oregon, Department of Environmental Quality, July 27, 2005. {TAS} http://www.deq.state.or.us/wmc/cu/sites/AlkaliLake.htm Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Stevens, Calvin H., and Tina Pelley. 2006. Development and dismemberment of a Middle Devonian continental-margin submarine fan system in east-central California. GSA Bulletin. 118(1/2):159-170. {TAS} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| Unruh, Jeffrey, James Humphrey and Andrew Barron. 2003. Transtensional model for the Sierra Nevada frontal fault system, eastern California. Geology. 31(4):327-330. {TAS-pdf} Location records referred to by this literature:
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| | Date and time this article was prepared: 5/8/2008 9:43:11 AM |