<b>Nopah Range</b>, Inyo County, California.

Eastern Mojave Vegetation

Nopah Range, Inyo County, California.

Gazetteer Query: G.N.I.S. See also: Location Anchor: "NVNyePahrumpVy" not found in tblLocations See also: Chicago Pass. Chicago Valley. Alexander Hills.
	Mountain Range in eastern California, bounded in the east by Pahrump Valley and on the west by Chicago Valley. The oldest sedimentary rocks in this Southern California region are 1.5 billion years old; younger deposits are rich in stromatolites. Literature Referring To This Location: Cloud, Preston, L. A. Wright, E. G. Williams, Paul Diehl, and M. R. Walter. 1974. Giant Stromatolites and Associated Vertical Tubes from the Upper Proterozoic Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley Region, Eastern California. Geology Society of America Bulletin. 85: 1869-1882. {TAS-pdf} Corsetti, Frank A., and John P. Grotzinger. 2005. Origin and Significance of Tube Structures in Neoproterozoic Post-glacial Cap Carbonates: Example from Noonday Dolomite, Death Valley, United States. Palaios. 20: 348-362. {TAS-pdf} Corsetti, Frank A, and Alan J. Kaufman. 2003. Stratigraphic investigations of carbon isotope anomalies and Neoproterozoic ice ages in Death Valley, California. Geological Society of America Bulletin. 115(8):916-932. {TAS}
	No collections made at this location.
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