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"Photograph ©1999 Tom Schweich. Used by permission, http://www.schweich.com"

If you have a comment or a question about a photograph you may write to me at tomas@schweich.com I will answer you as soon as I can. I sometimes post interesting questions in my FAQ, but I will not disclose your full name or address.

Generalized tectonic setting of the Precambrian-Cambrian margin of North America.

Many have drawn this diagram. This one is patterned after Corsetti and Hagadorn (2003).

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  • Death Valley Geology -- A Botanist's View: 148160.
  • Inyo-White Geology -- A Botanist's View: 148160.
  • Eastern Mojave Geology -- A Botanist's View: Cambrian transition.

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Tecopa Lake beds between Tecopa and Shoshone.

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

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Chicago Valley, looking south.

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

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Is this a landslide?

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

Every time I drive by this canyon at the very southeastern tip of the Funeral Mountains, I wonder whether it might be a landslide. Of course, I'll have to confess that I've not been sufficiently curious that I went to any effort to go look at it.

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Southeastern tip of the Funeral Mountains.

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

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Chicago Valley and the Resting Spring Range, looking north.

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

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View of Shoshone from the east.

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

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Resting Spring Range

Photograph taken May 24, 2004.

This photograph is looking west from some small hills just west of Pahrump, Nevada. The little green sign in the center of the photo is the California state line.

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Aguereberry Point

View northeast from Aguereberry Point.

Probably photographed May 1999.

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Cheryl at Aguereberry Point.

Photographed May 1993. Scanned 17 March 2018.

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Amargosa River

Looking north toward the Ibex Hills and Ibex Pass from the Amargosa River.

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The Amargosa River where it crosses California Highway 127.

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Hanging Gardens at the Amargosa Gorge.

View looking south of the "hanging Gardens" that have formed when waterfalls flowed from the contact at the base of a conglomerate. These ancient cascades with mineral-rich "hard water" have left travertine onyx drapes that contain impronts of fossil vegetation.

The roadbed of theTonopah and Tidewater is seen in the middleground.

Photograph taken from the purplish outcrop of Zabriskie Quartzite.

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Big Pine

Blackbrush near Big Pine

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

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  • Glacier Lodge Road and West Crocker Street, Inyo County, California: at powerline.
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Blackbrush near Big Pine

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

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  • Glacier Lodge Road and West Crocker Street, Inyo County, California: at powerline.
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Blackbrush near Big Pine

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

Klondike Lake is in the middleground, and the White Mountains in the distance.

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  • Glacier Lodge Road and West Crocker Street, Inyo County, California: at powerline.
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Waiting for our leaders at Big Pine.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

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Big Pine Fault

Fault near Crater Mountain

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

This fault appears to run from the northeast corner of the Poverty Hills into the Big Pine Fault on the south side of Crater Mountain. It is one piece of evidence often cited for the Poverty Hills being a pressure ridge.

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Field discussion of Big Pine Fault and Poverty Hills

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Cave Spring (Fort Irwin)

Cave Spring.

Between 1883 and 1887, Cave Spring was a water and rest stop for wagons loaded with borax from Death Valley (Vredenburgh, 1994). It also operated as an automobile rest stop on the main road to Death Valley from Barstow until the 1920s.

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Chalfant Quarry

Chalfant Quarry in Bishop Ash

Photograph taken April 26, 2009.

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China Ranch

China Ranch Date Farm.

Great place to stop for a Date Shake.

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Coso Junction

Coso Junction

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns

Plaque at Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns
In June 1873, Colonel Sherman Stevens built a sawmill and flume on Cottonwood Creek high in the Sierras directly west of this spot. The flume connected with the Los Angeles Bullion Road. The lumber from the flume was used for timbering in the mine and buildings, and the wood was turned into charcoal in these kilns, then hauled to Stevens Wharf east of here on Owens Lake. There it was put on the steamer the "Bessie Brady," or the "Mollie Stevens," hauled directly across the lake, and from there wagons took it up the "Yellow Grade" to Cerro Gordo Mine, high in the Inyo Mountains above Keeler. M. W. Belshaw's furnace had used all the available wood around Cerro Gordo and the charcoal was necessary to continued production.
The bullion which was then taken out by the reverse of this route was hauled to Los Angeles on Remi Nadeau's 14, 16, 18 animal freight wagons and played a major part in the building of that little pueblo into the city of today.
Plaque originally dedicated in 1955 by the California Eastern Sierra Museum Association. Plaque stolen in 1970. Recovered by Inyo County Sheriff's Dept. Rededicated May 15, 1976.
Slim Princess Chapter No. 395
E. Clampus Vitus

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Remains of adobe charcoal kilns.

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Cottonwood Creek

Water treatment plant near Cottonwood Creek.

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Crater Mountain

Crater Mountain, as seen from Klondike Lake

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

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Death Valley

Looking down Wildrose Canyon from near the charcoal kilns.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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The view from Zabriskie Point.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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George Hilton consults the map in Trail Canyon.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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  • Trail Canyon Road, Death Valley, Inyo County, California: 30000.
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Wildrose Charcoal Kilns.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Ron Felzer (right) leads field trip stop at Wildrose Charcoal Kilns.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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View northwest from Dante's View.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Waking up on the Trail Canyon fan.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Death Valley salt pan from Dante's View.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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George Hilton and several students at Devils Golf Course.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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Townes Pass in the snow.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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Faulting in Emigrant Canyon.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Salt formation at Badwater.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Cheryl at the charcoal kilns.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Exhumed mud cracks in Trail Canyon.

Photographed November 1980.

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Cheryl at Salt Creek.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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View from Trail Canyon fan into Death Valley.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Charcoal kilns and Wildrose Canyon.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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On the ridge at Dante's View.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Trail Canyon in the late afternoon.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Emigrant Canyon.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Death Valley as seen from the Last Chance Range.

Photograph taken October 7, 2000. Ubehebe Crater is in the center of the photograph.

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Mesquite Spring Campground

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Northern part of Death Valley from Ubehebe Crater

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Lowest point on California State Highway System, 242 feet below sea level.

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Tin Mountain from Ubehebe Crater

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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View into the most northern end of Death Valley

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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General view of Little Sand Spring

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Vegetation in Little Sand Spring

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

I assumed that the Sisyrinchium was S. halophilum. Of course, if I had looked at the Jepson Manual later, I learned it could have also been S. funereum.

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General view of Sand Spring

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Crankshaft Crossing

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Dry Mountain from Ubehebe Crater

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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The Nelson Range east of Cerro Gordo.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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Death Valley Road climbs the Last Chance Range

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Northern end of Death Valley.

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

Crankshaft Crossing is at the road junction in the left middleground.

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Death Valley Road traverses the Last Chance Range

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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General view of Crater

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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  • Crater, Inyo County, California

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General view south into Death Valley.

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Foothills of the Grapevine Mountains along Death Valley Road

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Wildrose Spring

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

There are picnic tables under the trees.

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Corkscrew Peak from the valley floor.

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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  • California Highway 190: 36499.

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Looking down (West) Nemo Canyon

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

The Argus Range is seen in the distance.

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The Billie Borate mine near Death Valley.

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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The sign and teakettle at Teakettle Junction.

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Death Valley Museum

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Death Valley salt pan and alluvial fan from Dante's View.

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Looking up (East) into Nemo Canyon

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Telescope Peak as seen from Dante's View

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Wildrose Graben

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Scotty's Castle in northern Death Valley.

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Looking east from Emigrant Pass

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

The canyon at right is Wood Canyon.

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Looking west from Emigrant Pass

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Wildrose Spring

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

There are picnic tables under the trees.

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Blackbrush vegetation at Emigrant Pas

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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A bright clear morning at Dante's View

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Group picture before leaving Death Valley

Photographed November 1984, scanned from a print 5 February 2018.

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Good-bye photo at Mesquite Spring Campground.

Photographed November 1981, scanned from a print 6 February 2018.

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Death Valley Junction

The Amargosa Opera House at Death Valley Junction.

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Bill Walsh and a T&T Ten-Wheeler

This photograph was sent to me by Nancy Walsh Herring. She writes, "My grandfather worked the Tonopah & Tidewater RR in the 1930's. I have attached a photo to this email of my grandfather, William (Bill) James Walsh standing next to the T&T (he is the one to the right). He lived at Death Valley Junction and my father and grandfather erected the flag pole that is still at Death Valley Junction today. My grandfather and father are both deceased and I am doing research on their lives. I thought you might enjoy an early picture." The location of the photograph is unknown.

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Deep Springs Valley

Geology field trip at an interesting outcrop.

Photograph taken 12-May-07.

The locality across the road looks like a tight synclinal fold.

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  • California Highway 168: 19900.

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Deep Springs College in the distance.

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Intermittent lake in Deep Springs Valley.

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Dumont Dunes

Dumont Dunes, as seen from California Highway 127

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Eagle Mountain

Eagle Mountain in the Amargosa River Valley.

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El Paso Mountains

Sheep Tank

This was a field trip stop to review recent work in the Goler Formation.

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Sheep Tank

Field discussion of recent work in the Goler Formation of the El Paso Mountains.

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Eureka Valley

Eureka Valley with the sand dunes at the south end.

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Fish Slough

Petroglyphs at Fish Slough

Photograph taken April 26, 2009.

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Fish Slough from Casa Diablo Mine Road

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

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  • Casa Diablo Mine Road, Mono County, and Casa Diablo Road, Inyo County, California: at s. edge.

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Fish weir in Fish Slough

Photograph taken April 26, 2009.

Steve Parmenter of California Fish and Game tells us about the custom fish weir intended to exclude large mouth bass from the pool with pupfish.

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Spring at Fish Slough

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Cow camp at Fish Slough

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Fish Slough

Photograph taken April 26, 2009.

View looking north, White Mountains at right.

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Garlock

Group from the San Bernardino Museum learns the history of studies of the Garlock Fault

A group from the San Bernardino Museum learns the history of studies of the Garlock Fault from George I. Smith of the U. S. Geological Survey. George's article, as well as the field trip guide used by this group can be found in Calzia and Reynolds (1998), which is available from the San Bernardino County Museum.

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  • Garlock Road, Central Mojave Desert, California: in Garlock.
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Inyo County

Looking North Along U. S. Highway 395 Near Nine Mile Canyon.

U. S. Highway 395 climbs the grade north out of Indian Wells Valley to Little Lake and Rose Valley. Red Hill can be seen in the distance.

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Inyo Mountains

View west of Little Cow Horn Valley

Photograph taken April 23, 2008.

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Waucoba Saline Road

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Joshua trees in Joshua Flats, Inyo County, California

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Little Cow Horn Valley

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Looking into Owens Valley from Death Valley Road

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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Inyo Mountains from Fish Springs Road

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

Looking at possible source area for Poverty Hills, if they are indeed a landslide deposit.

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So, is the road closed? Or Not?

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Kingston Range

Kingston Range as seen in late afternoon from Emigrant Pass.

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Kingston Range, seen from Kingston Road, just north of Valley Wells.

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Kingston Range as seen from Excelsior Mine Road.

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Looking down toward the Beck Spring Mine in the Kingston Range.

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Canyon in the Kingston Mountains.

In May 1998, I hiked up into this canyon in search of Kingston Mountains Ivesia (Ivesia patellifera). The purpose was to collect a fresh specimen for DNA studies by Barbara Ertter who studies this genus. It took me over an hour to climb up the boulder-strewn and rattlesnake-infested wash to the place shown here. Unfortunately, I chickened out when faced with climbing the slick rock face on the left. Back in the Herbarium, looking at this picture, we decided that I had walked right past the Ivesia, and didn't see it. Oh well ... maybe next year.

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Kingston Range from the northwest.

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Klondike Lake

Klondike Lake

Photograph taken April 27, 2009.

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Last Chance Range

Valley on east side of Last Chance Range.

Photograph taken October 7, 2000. Crankshaft Junction is just below the ridge at bottom right.

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Crater, former mining town.

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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  • Crater, Inyo County, California

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Hanging Rock Canyon

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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View of unknown mine from Last Chance Mountain.

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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View of Last Chance Range across the Eureka Valley

Photograph taken October 6, 2000.

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Lone Pine

Portagee Joe Campground near Lone Pine

Photograph taken June 1, 2009

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Lone Pine Fault

Lone Pine Fault

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Lone Pine Fault

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Pangborne Lane at US Hwy 395, location of paleoseismic investigation by trenching

Photograph taken May 31, 2009

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Magruder Mountain

Magruder Mountain, as seen from the Last Chance Range to the southwest.

Photograph taken October 7, 2000.

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Mesquite Mountains

The Mesquite Mountains seen from the vicinity of Keany Pass.

While I did not recognize it when I photographed the mountain, I believe the Mesquite Mountains Thrust can be seen in the lower left.

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Mono Basin

Mono Basin and other nearby areas with floristic research

Map drawn 10-Feb-2010.

This map is intended to show areas near the Mono Lake Basin where other floristic research has been done.

  • Bodie Hills: Messick, T. H. 1982. Flora and phytogeography of the Bodie Hills of Mono County, California and Mineral County, Nevada, USA. M. A. Thesis. Arcata, California: Humboldt State University.
  • Hall RNA:
    • DeSante, David. 1986. A field test of the variable circular-plot censusing method in a Sierran subalpine forest habitat. The Condor. 88(2):129-142.
    • Woolfenden, Wallace B. 1992. Harvey Monroe Hall Natural Research Area Management Plan. August 1992.
  • Mammoth: Howald, Ann M. 1989. Vegetation and Flora of the Mannoth Mountain Area. pp. 48-96 in Hall, Clarence A., Jr., Victoria Doyle-Jones, and Barbara Widawski. White Mountain Research Station Symposium. Natural History of Eastern California and High-altitude Research. Volume 3. Bishop, California: University of California, September 1989.
  • Sweetwater Mountains:
    • Hunter, K. B., and R. E. Johnson. 1983. Alpine flora of the Sweetwater Mountains, Mono County, California. Madrono. 30(4):89-105.
    • Lavin, M. 1983. Floristics of the upper Walker River, California and Nevada. Great Basin Naturalist. 43(1):93-130.
  • White Mountains:
    • Lloyd, Robert M., and Richard S. Mitchell. 1973. A Flora of the White Mountains, California and Nevada. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
    • Morefield, James D., Dean Wm. Taylor, and Mary DeDecker. 1988. Vascular Flora of the White Mountains of California and Nevada: An Updated, Synonymized Working Checklist. pp. 310-364 in Hall, Clarence A., Jr and Victoria Doyle-Jones, 1988. The Mary DeDecker Symposium, University of California, White Mountain Research Station.. Plant Biology of Eastern California.

All of the data came from the ESRI Maps & Data DVD.

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Nelson Range

Tom by a Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia Engelm.)

Photographed November 1984, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Merritt College van in the snow.

Photographed November 1984, scanned from a print 5 February 2018.

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Snow scene along Saline Valley Road.

Photographed November 1984, scanned from a print 6 February 2018.

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“The Egg” – a boulder containing a xenolith.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

Grapevine Canyon in the distance below.

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Where I hung out for four days, another view.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

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Where I hung out for four days.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

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Doo-dad at the meeting point on the last morning.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

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Headed out in the morning.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

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Forming up in base camp.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

From left to right: Oak Freed (Dave Birmingham), unknown, unknown, unknown, Phyllis, and Alan Levin.

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Forming up in base camp.

Photographed September 1991, scanned from a print 7 February 2018.

From left to right: Oak Freed (Dave Birmingham), unknown, unknown, Alan Levin, Phyllis, and me.

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Owens Valley

Early morning view of the Sierra Nevada

Photographed May 1993. Scanned 17 March 2018.

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Bishop and the Sierra Nevada from the White Mountains.

Photographed May 1993. Scanned 17 March 2018.

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  • White Mountain Road, Forest Road 4S01, Inyo County, California: 58690.
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Early morning view of the Sierra Nevada

Photographed May 1993. Scanned 17 March 2018.

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Panamint Mountains

Panamint Mountains and Telescope Peak from Panamint Valley Road.

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Panamint Valley

Panamint Range and Surprise Canyon from our camp.

Photographed November 1980. Scanned 30 November 2020.

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  • Indian Ranch Road, Inyo County, California: 30000.
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Chris Wicht Camp in Surprise Canyon.

Photographed November 1984. Scanned 1 December 2020.

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Panamint Range to the northeast of camp.

Photographed November 1984. Scanned 1 December 2020.

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Panamint Valley and Panamint Range

Photograph taken 2-May-07.

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Northern Panamint Valley from Saline Valley Road.

The dunes are in the left middle ground, with Lake Hill and a dry lake in the center. Telescope Peak of the Panamint Range are in the background.

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Camp site at or near Warm Sulphur Springs

Photographed November 1984, scanned from a print 6 February 2018.

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  • Indian Ranch Road, Inyo County, California: 30000.
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Poverty Hills

Poverty Hills from north on Fish Springs Road

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Queen Valley

US Highway 6 north through Queen Valley to Montgomery Pass

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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Racetrack

The Racetrack from Cerro Gordo.

Photograph taken July 16, 2005.

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The Racetrack and the Grandstand.

The Grandstand is an outcrop of resistant syenite surrounded by playa deposits, and thus would be termed an "inselberg."

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Rock on The Racetrack.

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  • Racetrack Valley Road, Inyon County, California: 34000.

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Rock on The Racetrack

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Rock on The Racetrack

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The Racetrack as seen from a distance.

The Racetrack is a dry lake, or playa, which is normally dry, but can be wet or be covered by several inches of water after a rainstorm. The valley containing the playa is called a bolson, which means purse in Spanish. Many geomorphic terms in the southwestern United States are Spanish in origin.

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Red Hill

Red Hill along US Hwy 395

Photograph taken April 25, 2009.

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Rock Units

Rough correlation of rock units between western, central , and eastern regions of the southern Great Basin.

From Stewart, 1970.

Ediacaran-Cambrian strata in the Great Basin of Nevada and California were deposited on the western margin of Laurentia (present coordinates) during the rift-drift transition, with the strata at Mount Dunfee representing one of the most distal, carbonate-dominated sections that is preserved. The Ediacaran to lower Cambrian Deep Spring Formation consists of three members: the Dunfee (lower), Esmeralda (middle), and Gold Point (upper) Members, which are also exposed in the White-Inyo Mountains (Smith, at al., 2016).

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  • Inyo-White Geology -- A Botanist's View: 148160.

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Shoshone

Moonrise over Shoshone

Photograph taken 1-May-07.

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Nighthawks in Shoshone.

Photograph taken 1-May-07.

I assume these were Lesser Nighthawks, flying in the lights over Shoshone.

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Downtown Shoshone in the early morning.

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Dugout in "Castles of Clay"

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Stovepipe Wells

Sand dunes at Stovepipe Wells in the early morning.

Photographed November 1984. Scanned 1 December 2020.

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Sand dunes near Stovepipe Wells in the afternoon.

Photographed in November 1980, scanned from a slide in 2023.

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Sand dunes at Stovepipe Wells.

Photographed November 1984. Scanned 1 December 2020.

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Surprise Canyon

Cascades in Surprise Canyon.

Photographed November 1984. Scanned 1 December 2020.

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Titus Canyon

Titus Canyon from Red Pass

Photographed May 1993. Scanned 17 March 2018.

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Tule Spring

Tule Spring, Alexander Hills in background.

This oasis may be formed by fine-grained materials dammed by vegetation in the low gradient California Valley.

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Walker Pass

Walker Pass on a windy Spring afternoon.

The historical plaque at Walker Pass reads as follows:

Walker's Pass

Discovered by Joseph R. Walker, American trail-blazer, who left the San Joaquin Valley through this pass in 1834. This area was traversed by topographer Edward M. Kern, after whom the Kern River was named, while accompanying the Fremont expedition of 1845. After 1860 it became a mining freight route to Owens Valley.

Dedicated April 25, 1937. Marker placed by Bakersfield Parlor No. 42 N.S.G.W., El Tejon Parlor No. N.S.G.W., Kern County Chamber of Commerce. State registered landmark No. 99.

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Westgard Pass

Westgard Pass.

Westgard Pass is the only east-west route through the White-Inyo Mountains, and is the dividing line between the two mountain ranges.

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White Mountains

Upper portion of a side canyon to Coldwater Canyon.

Photograph taken 13-May-07 in Coldwater Canyon. The long straight floor of the canyon occurs at the contact between two formations.

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Looking into the main part of Coldwater Canyon from a side canyon

Photograph taken 13-May-07 in Coldwater Canyon. A good trail around an area of shrub-choked stream can be seen on the opposite (south) bank.

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Hiking in the lower part of Coldwater Canyon

Photograph taken 13-May-07 in Coldwater Canyon.

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Hiking in the lower part of Coldwater Canyon

Photograph taken 13-May-07 in Coldwater Canyon.

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View west from Coldwater Canyon to the Sierra Nevada

Photograph taken 13-May-07.This view looks west across Chalfant Valley and Fish Slough, the Volcanic Tableland, to the Sierra Nevada. I think Wheeler Ridge is in the center, Pine Creek Canyon to left of Center, and Mount Tom is on the left.

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Wyman Creek in "Wyman Canyon"

Photograph taken 12-May-07.

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View into Wyman Canyon

Photograph taken 12-May-07.

"Wyman Canyon" is not recognized by the GNIS, but is a name commonly applied to the canyon containing Wyman Creek.

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Field trip stop at Gilbert Summit

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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Canyon ascending to Westgard Pass

Photograph taken 12-May-07.

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Boundary Peak (left) and Montgomery Peak (right) from Queen Valley.

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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Tres Plumas Flat from the bottom of Furnace Creek.

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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  • Furnace Creek Road, Mono County California: 80000.

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Location that Sclerocactus polyancistrus was found.

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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  • Furnace Creek Road, Mono County California: 28300.

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Partially-developed desert pavement on terrace above Furnace Creek

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

The second terrace above the wash had a partially developed desert pavement. A large boulder of granite is in left-center, partially decomposed. It was on this terrace that we found several specimens of Sclerocactus polyancistrus.

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  • Furnace Creek Road, Mono County California: 28100.

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Fish Lake Valley and the Silver Peak Range from Furnace Creek.

Photograph taken 11-May-07.

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Hiking in the lower part of Coldwater Canyon

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Zabriskie

Borax Spring at Zabriskie.

During the summer months, borax from Death Valley was processed here and shipped on the Tonopah and Tidewater railroad.

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