Eastern Mojave Vegetation U. S. Interstate 10  
 

Tom Schweich  

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Literature Cited 		  U. S. Interstate 10 goes from the Pacific coast in Santa Monica, California to Jacksonville, Florida.
     

Junction:

  • CA Highway 1
 

Other Articles: U. S. Interstate 5: 80000  

 Junction: Interstate 5
      Monterey Park, Western Boundary of San Gabriel Valley.

Literature Cited:
- Yeats, Robert S., 2004.  

Locations: San Gabriel Valley.  

San Gabriel Valley

The San Gabriel Valley is a Pliocene-Pleistocene Transverse Ranges structure bounded by the San Gabriel Mountains on the north, the San Jose and Puente Hills on the east, and the Repetto and Montebello Hills on the west.
      San Gabriel River.
      Junction: US I-805
      San Jose Hills. Eastern Boundary of San Gabriel Valley.

Other Articles: Interstate 15: at US I-10  

 Junction: Interstate 15

Other Articles: California Highway 18: at US I-10  

 Junction: California Highway 18

Literature Cited:
- Allen, Clarence R., 1957.  

Locations: San Gorgonio Pass.  

Banning

 
 

Locations: Banning.  

Banning

 

Other Articles: California Highway 111: at US I-10  

 Junction: California Highway 111, to Palm Springs, the Salton Sea, and Calexico.
     

Whitewater

 

Other Articles: CA Hwy 62: at US I-10  

 Junction: California Highway 62
 

Locations: Indio.  

Indio

 

Literature Cited:
- Barth, Andrew P., Joseph L. Wooden, Carl E. Jacobson, and Kelly Probst, 2004.  

Locations: McCoy Mountains.  

 McCoy Mountains, north of US I-10.

The McCoy Mountains are composed of the McCoy Mountains Formation, > 7 km of fluvial sediments, representing a retroarc foreland basin, deposited behind the active evolving Cretaceous Cordilleran continental margin magmatic arc that lay to the west and in the foreland of the actively deforming Cretaceous Maria fold-and-thrust belt (Barth, Andrew P., et al, 2004).

Other Articles: California Highway 78: at US I-10 Neighbours Blvd.: at US I-10  

 Junction:
  • California Highway 78
  • Neighbours Blvd.

Literature Cited:
- Poulson, Simon R., and Barbara E. John, 2003.

Other Articles: Field Notes: September 21, 2000

Locations: Blythe.  

Blythe

 

Other Articles: U. S. Highway 95: Blythe  

 Junction: US Highway 95, North
      California above …
Arizona below …

Other Articles: Arizona Highway 95: in Quartzsite U. S. Highway 95: Quartzsite

Locations: Quartzite.  

Quartzsite

Junction: US Highway 95, South

Other Articles: US Interstate 17: Phoenix  

Phoenix

Exit 143: Junction: US Interstate 17, north to Flagstaff.
 

Locations: Sacaton Mountains.  

 The Sacaton Mountains to the southwest. Strudley, Murray, and Haff (2006) use the Sacaton Mountains as an example of a location with pediment passes.
     

Casa Grande

 
     

Tucson

 
 

Locations: Benson.  

Benson

 

Other Articles: North Pomerene Road: at US I-10  

 Exit 306: N. Pomerance Road, AZ Hwy 76

Access north to North Cascabel Road along the San Pedro River.

      Rest Area
      Texas Summit
 

Locations: Little Dragoon Mountains.  

 Little Dragoon Mountains to the north.
      Cross Big Draw

Other Articles: North Johnson Road: at US I-10

Locations: Johnson.  

 Exit 322, Johnson Road

Johnson, to the north.

There is a single collection of Swertia albomarginata from near Johnson, Cochise County, Arizona.

Other Articles: US Highway 191: at US I-10  

 Junction: US Highway 191, south to Douglas.

Other Articles: South Taylor Road: at US I-10  

 Exit: 336: South Taylor Road

Take South Taylor Road north to Airport Road, then west to Muleshoe Road.

     

Wilcox

 

Other Articles: US Highway 191: at US I-10  

 Junction: US Highway 191, north to Safford
      Arizona above …
New Mexico below …
      Jacksonville, Florida

Junction: US Interstate 95

     

Literature Cited

  A list of all literature cited by this web site can be found in the Bibliography.
 
Allen, Clarence R. 1957. San Andreas Fault Zone in San Gorgonio Pass, Southern California. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. 68(3):315-350. {TAS}

Location records referred to by this literature:

 
Barth, Andrew P., Joseph L. Wooden, Carl E. Jacobson, and Kelly Probst. 2004. U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the McCoy Mountains Formation, southeastern Califronia: A Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin. GSA Bulletin. 116(1/2):142-153. {TAS-pdf}

Location records referred to by this literature:

 
Poulson, Simon R., and Barbara E. John. 2003. Stable isotope and trace element geochemistry of the basal Bouse Formation carbonate, southwestern United States: Implications for the Pliocene uplift history of the Colorado Plateau. GSA Bulletin. 115(4):434-444. {TAS-pdf}

Location records referred to by this literature:

  • Bouse, La Paz County, Arizona.
  • Blythe, Riverside County, California.
  • Needles, San Bernardino County, California.
 
Yeats, Robert S. 2004. Tectonics of the San Gabriel Basin and surroundings, southern California. GSA Bulletin. 116(9/10):1158-1182. {TAS-pdf}

Location records referred to by this literature:

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Date and time this article was prepared: 5/8/2008 9:43:24 AM