Eastern Mojave Vegetation Irwin Road - Central Mojave Desert  
 

Tom Schweich  

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Other articles:
• Harry Wade Road:  14000;  

Junction:
  • Harry Wade Road

Full Size ImageField trip stop between Cave Spring and Denning Spring.  
During a field trip stop between Cave Spring and Denning Spring, north of Fort Irwin, this group from the 1998 Desert Research Symposium has a discussion of east-west trending fault zones in the western Awawatz Mountains. The left-lateral Garlock fault zone is mapped along the base of the hills in the foreground. Telescope Peak in the Panamint Mountains can be seen in the distance. Southern Death Valley is in the right middle-ground.

Full Size ImageBeavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris) near the northern boundary of Fort Irwin.  
Beavertail cactus (Opuntia basilaris) near the northern boundary of Fort Irwin.
 

Fort Irwin National Training Center


Note: Travel by private citizens in Fort Irwin requires a military escort.

Full Size ImageField trip stop and lunch break at Cave Spring, near Avawatz Pass.  
During a field trip stop and lunch break at Cave Spring, near Avawatz Pass, this group from the 1998 Desert Research Symposium has a discussion of the archeological resources of the Fort Irwin area.

Literature Cited:
- Vredenburgh, Larry M, 1994.

Locations: Cave Spring.
Full Size ImageCave 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.

Literature Cited:
- Pavlis, Terry L., Laura Serpa, Bennie Troxel, Michael Dean, Theresa Hartman and Traci Rodosta, 1998.
Full Size ImageField trip stop on Irwin Road.  

During a field trip stop in the Drinkwater Valley, Terry Pavlis of the University of New Orleans discusses the evidence for 90 degrees of clockwise rotation of the Avawatz Mountains in the late Cenozoic (Pavlis et al., 1998).
  Note: Travel by private citizens in Fort Irwin requires a military escort.

Fort Irwin National Training Center

Other articles:
• Unknown Road:   at Irwin Rd;  

Junction: BLM Road, into northwestern Calico Mountains.

Other articles:
• Fort Irwin Road:   at Irwin Rd;  

Junction: Fort Irwin Road
  Junction: Old Yermo Cutoff

Other articles:
• Copper City Road:  20000;  

Junction:
  • Copper City Road

Other articles:
• Fossil Bed Road:   at Irwin Road;
Full Size ImageView of Rainbow Basin Campground in the Early Morning.  

Junction:
  • Fossil Bed Road

Several miles west is the BLM Rainbow Basin campground and the Barstow Syncline.

Other articles:
• Field Notes:   24 Apr 2010;
Full Size ImageBarstow as seen from Irwin Road  

 

Other articles:
• Old California Highway 58:   at Irwin Rd;  

Junction:
  • Old Highway 58
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Date and time this article was prepared: 9/22/2024 4:37:40 PM