Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Trench Canyon. Alkali Lake. Aurora Valley.

See also: Mount Hicks Spillway.

As described by the Geographic Names Information System, it is 19.2 km (12 mi) long and 4.8 km (3 mi) wide Arch-shaped, containing Larkin Lake; the north end is located 4.8 km (3 mi) southwest of Powell mountain, and the southwest end is located west of the Nevada-California boundary.

The Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources splits the valley into a northern portion, containing Alkali Lake, and a southern portion extending into California to Larkin Lake.

Russell (1889) refers to the southern portion as Aurora Valley and gives no name for the northern portion, while being clear it did not contain water of Pleistocene Lake Russell.

The Toyiabe National Forest map refers to the southern portion as Alkali Valley, and the northern portion as Aurora Valley.

Elevation: 6768ft, 2063m.

Articles that refer to this location:

• A Checklist Flora of the Mono Lake Basin, Mono County, California and Mineral County, Nevada.: near Spring Pk;  in Alkali Valley; 
• Forest Road 058: 46000;  54000; 

Literature Referring To This Location:

• Reheis, Marith C., Scott Stine, and Andrei M. Sarna-Wojcicki. 2002. Drainage reversals in Mono Basin during the late Pliocene and Pleistocene. GSA Bulletin. 114(8):991-1006. {TAS-pdf}
• Russell, Israel C. 1889. Quaternary history of Mono Valley, California. Eighth Annual Report of the U. S. Geological Survey. Washington, DC: United States Geological Survery, 1889. {TAS}
• United States Forest Service, Toiyabe National Forest. 1994. Toiyabe National Forest map. {TAS} Scale: 1:126,720

Area Plant Lists that contain this location:

• Area Plant List for Mono Basin.

Species collected at or near this location.

This list summarizes plants collected or observed at this specific, named location. It does not include plants collected or observed at nearby named or unnamed locations. It may be more instructive to use the Area Lists that contain this location.

• TAS – The plant was collected by Tom Schweich.
• Oth – The plant was collected by someone, but not Tom.
• Obs – The plant was observed, but not collected.

Chenopodiaceae

Atriplex argentea Nutt. hillmanii. Silverscale Saltbush (Oth)

Salsola tragus L. Tumbleweed (Oth)

A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M,
N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

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Date and time this article was prepared:5:35:53 PM, 11/3/2024.