1 The gummis made it to Mosaic Canyon on the last day!
2 The entrance into an overcast Mosaic Canyon.
3 The famous fault of Mosaic Canyon.
4 John looks over the Noonday dolomite that has been polished via abrasion.
5 This angle shows an ancient drainage of Mosaic Canyon that had been filled-in with alluvium now being cross-cut by a new meander.
6 If this rock played poker, it would fold. Seriously, this gives a great idea ast o how much pressure was exerted to form the dolomites.
7 Steve gets a birds-eye view.
8 The class sits in the channel once filled with alluvium, but now re-eroded.
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10 Stovepope wells can be seen WAY in the distance.
11 This dolomite was layed down during the Proterozoic and has seen something in the neighborhood of seven crustal deformations throughout its existence.
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13 Petroglyphs!
14 Aguereberry Point
15 Mt Whitney in the background. Ancient landscape in teh foreground.
16 Aguereberry Point
17 From this vantage point, Garry summed-up the class' adventure through rocks and time. These Panamint mountains were on the other side of Death Valley less than four million years ago.
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19 Raven.
20 Quartzite- metamorphic sandstones.
Day 5