Next stop - The Amargosa Chaos. These tortured blocks of rock are the result of very low-angle normal faults. The geologist that first mapped this area, Levi…
Quite the crew this year!
Paul admires the scenery through his eyelids.
Pahrump Group of rocks. We were given a chance to hike out to see evidence of the Snow Ball Earth that existed some 700 million years ago.
awesome mini ventifact.
The desert can be deceiving… we had to cross three or four arroyos to get to our outcrop.
Cool dropstone carved out by wind erosion. Black was more resistant than red, apparently.
Dry desert air led toa blood nose for Z while looking down at cool rocks.
Fun in the sand with fanglomerate chunks in the foreground.
Love this stunning ventifact. See the 3D model version of it here:
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These cobbles were once plucked off a river bed by glaciers, floated out to sea in an iceberg and then melted and dropped into the fine grained sediment. The…
These cobbles were once plucked off a river bed by glaciers, floated out to sea in an iceberg and then melted and dropped into the fine grained sediment. The…
Kingston Peak Formations
Large dropstone in Kingston Peak Fmt.
