<b>Laurel Mountain</b>, Mono County, California.

Eastern Mojave Vegetation

Laurel Mountain, Mono County, California.

Gazetteer Query: G.N.I.S. See also: Mount Morrison. See also: Convict Lake. Long Valley. McGee Mountain.
	Mountain in the eastern Sierra Nevada, elevation 3609 m, near Mount Morrison and McGee Mountain, west of Convict Lake. Laurel Mountain is one of the best-exposed paleohydrothermal systems yet studied. Lackey and Valley (2004) evaluated fluid flow during contact metamorphism that caused wollastonite growth in calcareous metasandstones at Laurel Mountain in the Mount Morrison pendant at the eastern margin of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California. Articles that refer to this location: Convict Lake Road, Mono County, California: near Convict Lk; Field Notes: 18 Jun 2011; Glossary: wollastonite; U. S. Highway 395: at Laurel Mtn; Literature Referring To This Location: Greene, David C., Calvin H. Stevens, and James M. Wise. 1997. The Laurel-Convict fault, eastern Sierra Nevada, California: A Permo-Triassic left-lateral fault, not a Cretaceous intrabatholithic break. GSA Bulletin. 109(4):483-488. {TAS-pdf} Lackey, Jade Star, and John W. Valley. 2004. Complex patterns of fluid flow during wollastonite formation in calcareous sandstone at Laurel Mountain, Mount Morrison Pendant, California. GSA Bulletin. 116(1/2):6.93. {TAS-pdf}
	No collections made at this location.
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