Eastern Mojave Vegetation
Tom Schweich
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Eastern Mojave Vegetation
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Junction: U. S. Interstate 80, west to San Francisco, or east through Sacramento, and over the Sierra Nevada.
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| West Sacramento
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Bridge over the Sacramento | Sacramento City Limits
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| SacramentoJunction: California Highway 99, south to Fresno and Bakersfield, rejoining US Interstate 5 near the Grapevine.
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Sacramento City Limits |
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| PlacervilleJunction: California Highway 49, south to Jackson, Angels Camp, Sonora, etc., or north to Auburn and the Yuba River.
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| Echo SummitElevation: 7377 ft (2248 m).
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Junction:California Highway 89, south over Luther Pass to Hope Valley, through Markleville, and then over Monitor Pass to US Hwy 395.
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Junction: California Highway 89, north on the west side of Lake Tahoe to Truckee, Lassen National Park, and ultimately to Mount Shasta.
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Lake Tahoe.
| South Lake TahoeSouth Lake Tahoe
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California above
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Lake Tahoe State Park -- Cave Rock Unit.
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Locations: Cave Rock.
Cave Rock. | Prominent hornblende trachyte plug, eroded by wave action during probable Tahoe-age highstands of Lake Tahoe. Tsumani wave heights of up to 6m could be expected here. An 1879 issue of the San Francisco Examiner reporteda possible tsunami at Glenbrook, and attributed collapse of rocks at Cave Rock to this event (Schweickert, et al., 2000, p. 14).
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Junction:Nevada Highway 207, east over Daggett Pass and into the Carson Valley.
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Shakespeare Point
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Locations: Glenbrook.
Glenbrook
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Captain Pomin Rock to the north and west of US Hwy 50 is a hornblende latite plug that intrudes a hornblende trachyte unit (Schweickert, et al., 2000).
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Spooner Junction, Junction: |
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| Spooner Summit
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Junction: U. S. Highway 395, South, From this junction, US Hwy 50 continues west to Lake Tahoe and Sacramento. US Hwy 395 continues south to Bridgeport, Bishop, etc.
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| Carson City
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Junction: U. S. Highway 395, North , From this junction, US Hwy 50 continues east across central Nevada. US Hwy 395 continues north to Reno.
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| Empire
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Junction: Nevada Highway 341, Turn off to Virginia City.
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| Dayton
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| Silver SpringsJunction: Alt U. S. Highway 95.
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Lyon County, Nevada | Churchill County, Nevada
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Junction: U. S. Highway Alternate 50, northwest to U. S. Interstate 80 at Fernley, Nevada. Typically, we exit US Hwy 50 here and go to I-80 to cross the Sierra Nevada.
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Locations: Fallon.
| FallonJunction: U. S. Highway 95
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Grimes Point Archeological Area.
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| Salt WellsSalt Wells Brothel.
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Locations: Rainbow Mountain.
Turnoff to Rainbow Mountain, ~0.4 miles southeast of the Salt Wells Brothel. This would be the location of Caskey, Bell, and Slemmons (2000) field trip Stop 1, Wave-modified Paleoscarp (?) and 6 July 1954 Fault Ruptures, about 2.5 miles north.
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| Eight Mile FlatSalt dry lake.
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Road south-southeast to Huck Salt Mine. Hike 0.3 miles south to Stop 2, Channel Exposure and Holocene Paleoseismicity on the Four Mile Flat Fault, of Caskey, Bell, and Slemmons (2000). | Four Mile Flat of the Salt Wells Basin is to the southeast, whereas Eight Mile Flat is to the northwest.
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Locations: Sand Mountain.
| Sand Mountain
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| Sand Springs Range
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| Sand Springs Pass
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Junction: Nevada Highway 839
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Locations: Frenchman.
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Locations: Dixie Valley.
Dixie Valley, to the north.
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| Fairview ValleyMilitary Restricted Area.
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Fairview Historical Marker
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Junction: Nevada Highway 121, North, into Dixie Valley
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Locations: Fairview Peak.
Fairview Peak
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| Drumm Summit
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Locations: Fairview Peak.
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The Fairview Peak fault zone is the most readily accessible area of 14 examples of historical surface faulting in the Basin and Range Province. It also provides a classic example of the kinds of seismo tectonic events that, with many repetitions in the last 10 or 20 million years, have developed the geologic features of this province (Slemmons, David B., and John W. Bell, 1987).
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Locations:
Chalk Mountain.
The little white conical mountain to the north of the highway is Chalk Mountain.
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| West Gate
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Junction: Nevada Highway 361, south to Gabbs.
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The Shoe Tree.
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Junction: Nevada Highway 722. This highway goes east, and rejoins U. S. Highway 50 near Austin.
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Locations: Clan Alpine Mountains.
Clan Alpine Mountains to the north.
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Camp Creek Camp Ground.
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| Cold Springs
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| Edwards Creek Valley
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| New Pass SummitElevation: 6,348 ft. Desatoya Mountains to the south; New Pass Range to the north.
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| Smith Creek Valley
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| Shoshone Mountains
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| Mt Airy Summit
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| Reese River Valley
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Junction: Nevada Highway 722
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| Toiyabe Range
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"Large 'islands' like ... the Toiyabe Range still support mammals that need special habitats or food: the carniverous ermine, relict on six island mountains, and the white-tailed jackrabbit, a six-and-a-half-pound herbivore dependent on large meadows (Trimble, 1989)."
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Junction: Nevada State Route 305, north to Battle Mountain.
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Locations:
Austin.
| AustinThree motels, three restaurants (Carol's Country Kitchen was good).
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| Austin SummitAt Austin Summit, 5 miles east of Austin, elevation 7,484 feet, take the dirt road south, past fenced off spring to summit, local resident noted that the road remains good as it descends a canyon on the east side of the Toiyabe Range.
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One of the things that surprised me was that the central Nevada
mountain ranges are bare above the Pinyon-Juniper belt. Not until
we got to eastern Nevada did a Ponderosa Pine or Rocky Mountain
White Fir zone appear above the Pinyons and Junipers. Why might this
be?
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| Scott SummitElevation, 7,267 feet.
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Junction: Nevada Highway 378, south to US Highway 6 near Tonopah.
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Toiyabe Range.
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Locations:
Big Smoky Valley.
Hickison Petroglyph Recreation Area.
| Big Smoky Valley
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Big Smoky Valley.
Highway passes from Big Smoky Valley to Monitor Valley by way of Hickison Summit.
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Locations:
Hickison Petroglyph Recreation Area.
| Hickison SummitElevation 6,564 feet.
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| Monitor Valley
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| Antelope Valley
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| Lone Mountain
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This small white mountain, north of the highway, appears to be vegetated by
Junipers, with few Pinyons.
A few small roads approach the mountain from the south.
There are many roads on the east side.
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| Diamond Mountains
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Junction: Nevada Highway 278.
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Locations:
Ruby Hill.
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