Eastern Mojave Vegetation | Irwin Road - Central Mojave Desert |
Tom Schweich |
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Field 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. |
Beavertail 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 CenterNote: Travel by private citizens in Fort Irwin requires a military escort. | |
Field 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. |
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Cave Spring.
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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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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 | |
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Junction: BLM Road, into northwestern Calico Mountains. |
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Junction: Fort Irwin Road |
Junction: Old Yermo Cutoff | |
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Several miles west is the BLM Rainbow Basin campground and the Barstow Syncline. |
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Date and time this article was prepared: 9/22/2024 4:37:40 PM |