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US I-15 as seen from Harvard Hill.

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Afton Canyon

"Norms Nook," a slot canyon tributary to Afton Canyon

This slot canyon shows the rapid incision that has occurred since Afton Canyon formed. This tributary has incised in response to the rapidly lowered base level of Afton Canyon. Vertical incision occurred first, and the meandering of the stream from side to side is responsible for the overhangs. When the stream reaches a reasonable longitudinal gradient, a significant widening of the channel develops. Eventually the overhangs break off and the channel walls become vertical (Reynolds & Reynolds, 2000).

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Field trip stop in Afton Canyon

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Field trip stop on the shore of Lake Manix

Norman Meek discusses the history of Pleistocene Lake Manix at this field trip stop on the 1780 ft. shoreline of the former lake.

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Almond Mountain

Wildflowers at Almond Mountain.

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Atolia

Sign for Atolia

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  • Atolia, San Bernardino County, California

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Barstow

The Barstow Depot.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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  • Barstow, San Bernardino County, California

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Welding project beside the road.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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  • Barstow, San Bernardino County, California

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Barstow as seen from Irwin Road

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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  • Barstow, San Bernardino County, California

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Barstow Syncline

Jean Miller & Dan Rosen at the Barstow Syncline.

Photographed in March 1991.

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Blackwater Well

Blackwater Well.

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Blackwater Well with Almond Mountain in the background.

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Boron

US Borax Plant at Boron.

Photograph taken 30-Apr-07.

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  • Boron, Kern County, California

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  • California Highway 58: 54800.

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Buwalda Ridge

Buwalda Ridge from Afton Road

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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The Mojave River flows past Buwalda Ridge.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Air Photo showing Buwalda Ridge and Manix Wash

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

This map was brought by Marith Reheis, and was also used on other field trips to this area. We are at the location marked Day 2 Stop 2.

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Central Mojave Desert

Near Field Trip Stop P-3

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Near Field Trip Stop P-3

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Road along the Union Pacific tracks.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Indian Trail Road off of Old US Hwy 66

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Helendale Road, near the north end at CA Hwy 58

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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The route north.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010. The route through these little hills, as described in Reynolds & Miller (2010) is from north to south. I did it from south to north, so I went down this little canyon, If you're following the field trip guide, you'll come up the little canyon.

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Road up to the top of the bluff.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Helendale, as seen from the north.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Road Junction; National Trails Highway and unknown road.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Field Trip Stop P-5

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Approximate Location of Field Trip Stop P-4

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Take the middle road.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

If you're following the route in reverse order, i.e., from south to north, it can be hard to find the route down off the bluff. There are three routes north. The westernmost dead ends at a fine viewpoint. The easternmost goes into the housing development. Take the middle route shown here.

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Cronese Basin

Cronese Basin with Cave Mountain.

The Cronese Basin with Cave Mountain on the south (left) side. The Basin Road overpass over U. S. Interstate 15 can be seen at the extreme left.

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Daggett Ridge

Outcrop of Peach Spring Tuff

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Field Trip Stop M-12

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Field Trip Stop M-12

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Looking north from Daggett Ridge

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Stromatolitic limestone

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Overturned section of Barstow Formation at Columbus/Gem Mine

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Desert Tortoise Natural Area

Matt and Scott at the entrance.

Photographed in April 1981.

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Drinkwater Valley

Field trip stop on Irwin Road.

During a field trip stop in the Drinkwater Valley, Terry Pavlis of the University of New Orleans discusses the evidence for 90 degrees of clockwise rotation of the Avawatz Mountains in the late Cenozoic (Pavlis et al., 1998).

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Emerald Basin

Getting the explanation of Emerald Basin.

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Emerald bed in the Barstow Formation

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

The mineral making the green color is Celadonite, a greenish mineral of hydrated iron, magnesium, potassium silicate containing small amounts of aluminum, calcium, sodium, and numerous trace elements.

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What we saw in the Emerald Basin.

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Fremont Valley

Goler Road crosses Fremont Valley.

Koehn Dry Lake in the left middleground.

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US Hwy 395 crosses Fremont Valley

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Fremont Valley from the mouth of Pine Tree Canyon

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

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CA Hwy 14 at Pine Tree Canyon

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

The mouth of Jawbone Canyon is in the distance.

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Garlock

Remains of the town of Garlock.

Garlock flourished in the late 1800s when gold was discovered in Goler Gulch. Photograph taken in May, 1998.

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Garlock Fault

Cabin near Goler Heights

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Dispersed camping at Goler Gulch

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Escarpment of El Paso Mountains

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Overview of Eastern California Shear Zone.

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Cabin near Goler Heights

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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"Art by Kristal" alongside Garlock Road.

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

I also stopped and talked with Ricky Ricardo for a few minutes.

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Harvard Hill

Structure of south Harvard Hill

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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David Miller shows the location of the thrust fault.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Harvard Maze

View west across a portion of the Harvard Maze

Photograph taken April 23, 2011.

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Kramer Junction

Present Day Kramer Station.

Annie Alexander and Louise Kellogg collected here on April 19, 1940. Photograph taken May 27, 2001. The nearby cemetary was erected in late 1920, for the workers who died while building the railroad.

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Lake Manix

Field discussion of the history of Lake Manix

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Field Trip Stop: Dunn Wash Gravel Quarry.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Discussion of the depositional environment of the Lake Manix sediments.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

Mojave River in the background.

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Two fossil bones weathered out of Lake Manix sediments.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Field Trip Stop on the shores of Lake Manix

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Field discussion of the source of the Manix Ash in the Lake anix sediments

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Desert Iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis) in Lake Manix deposits.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Landers

Trying to escape from the rupture of the Landers earthquake.

Photographed 5 July 1992. Scanned 28 November 2020.

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Christina at a surface rupture of the Landers earthquake.

Photographed 5 July 1992. Scanned 28 November 2020.

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Lime Hill

Looking at bedded limestone on Lime Hill

Photograph taken April 23, 2011, on Lime Hill, San Bernardino County, California.

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  • Lime Hill, San Bernardino County, California

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Field discussion of the geology in today's field trip.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011, near Lime Hill, San Bernardino County, California.

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  • Lime Hill, San Bernardino County, California

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Little Borate

General view of Little Borate

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Chevron folds in Barstow Formation at Little Borate

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Mojave River

The Mojave River and Helendale.

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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The Mojave River looking toward Wild Crossing

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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The Mojave River at Wild Crossing

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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The Mojave River at Hinkley Road

Photograph taken 21 April 2010.

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Mojave Valley

View north from Columbus/Gem mine.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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Who is this guy? Why does he keep showing up in my Mojave Desert photos?

At Field Trip Stop 1-1, we are looking at mid-Pleistocene Lake Manix. Here tufa was deposited by blue-green algae on alluvial fan deposits in clear water.

(The person in the photograph is Bob Reynolds, leader of the field trip, and prime instigator of the annual Desert Research Symposium.)

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  • U. S. Interstate 15: 56620.

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Agriculture in the Central Mojave.

This photograph looks east from Harvard Hill across the Mojave River to the Cady Mountains. The large green circle is one of several alfalfa fields in this area. Ground water is pumped into huge sprinkler systems to irrigate the alfalfa. The combination of soil disturbance and declining water tables has destabilized the landscape resulting in increased sand movement and dust storms that have been blamed for fatal highway accidents.

The cars and people are participating in the 2002 Desert Research Symposium field trip and are here in Harvard Hill to review marker beds in the Miocene Barstow Formation..

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Field trip discussion of the Miocene Barstow Basin.

Small hill capped by resistant silicified algal limestone (MSL). The algal mats preserved here are the deep water facies of the MSL marker unit.

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View of Mojave Valley from Dagget Ridge

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View south across Mojave River from Harvard Hill.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

Newberry Springs to the south at the base of the hills.

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Vicinity of Camp Cady on the Mojave River.

Photograph taken 20-April-06

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  • Camp Cady, San Bernardino County, California

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New Dunn

Field Trip Stop at New Dunn

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

Photograph looks across the Union Pacific tracks hidden in the cut through Lake Manix sediments.

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  • New Dunn, San Bernardino County, California

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Union Pacific passes the site of Dunn.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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  • New Dunn, San Bernardino County, California

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Looking at root casts high in the section of the Afton Arm of Lake Manix

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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  • New Dunn, San Bernardino County, California

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Owl Canyon

Stromatolites in the Barstow Formation

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Barstow Formation opposite Camp Site #28

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Discussion of Barstow Formation in Camp Site #28

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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The Owl at Owl Canyon Campground.

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Paradise Range

Paul Schweich (my father) at the Olympus Mine.

Photographed in November 1987.

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Peach Spring Tuff

Field discussion about Peach Spring Tuff in the Alvord Mountain area.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011, while standing on an outcrop believed to be Peach Spring Tuff.

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Pilot Knob

Pilot Knob seen from the "Grass Valley" route.

Pilot Knob is inside the China Lake Naval Weapons Station.

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  • Grass Valley Route - Central Mojave Desert: 12000.

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Pine Tree Canyon

Los Angeles Aqueduct crosses Pine Tree Canyon

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

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Lower Pine Tree Canyon

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

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Construction on a power line for a wind energy project

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

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Pine Tree Canyon at the locked gate.

Photograph taken April 17, 2008.

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Pliocene Gravels

View northeast across basin to Goldstone gravel ridge.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011.

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Resistant limestone ledge on sand ridge.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011.

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View of Goldstone Gravels along the gravel ridge.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011.

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View from the gravel ridge.

Photograph taken April 23, 2011.

It was very windy this day. In the foreground, especially on the left are several basalt flows. A large sand ridge is visible in the left middleground. Harvard Hill is visible in front of the wind blown dust. The Newberry Mountains are in the background.

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Rainbow Basin Campground

View of Rainbow Basin Campground in the Early Morning.

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Randsburg

Randsburg, Kern County, California

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Red Mountain

Red Mountain to the east of US Highway 395

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Robbers Roost

Robbers Roost from California Highway 14

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Solar Electric Generating Systems

Solar Electric Generating Systems

Located just north of Kramer Junction on US Hwy 395.

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Solar Electric Generating Systems

Located just north of Kramer Junction on US Hwy 395.

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Stoddard Valley

Intersection of Oxford and Gloucestor

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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  • Stoddard Valley Road or "Oxford Road," San Bernardino County, California: at unk rd 3.
  • Unknown Road ("Stoddard Road" or "Gloucestor"), San Bernardino County, California: at Stoddard Vy.
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Tin Can Alley

View down Tin Can Alley.

Photograph taken 24 April 2010.

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Toomey Hills

Fluvial gravels at base of Barstow formation.

Photograph taken 23 April 2010.

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  • Power Line Road #2 (Middle), San Bernardino County, California: at M-5.
  • Field Notes: 24 Apr 2010.

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