<b>McCoy Mountains</b>, Riverside County, California.

Eastern Mojave Vegetation

McCoy Mountains, Riverside County, California.

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	Low mountains, highest elevation 805 meters, in southeastern California. Just west of Blythe, north of US I-10. The McCoy Mountains are composed of the McCoy Mountains Formation, > 7 km of fluvial sediments, representing a retroarc foreland basin, deposited behind the active evolving Cretaceous Cordilleran continental margin magmatic arc that lay to the west and in the foreland of the actively deforming Cretaceous Maria fold-and-thrust belt (Barth, Andrew P., et al, 2004). Articles that refer to this location: U. S. Interstate 10: near McCoy Mtns; Literature Referring To This Location: Barth, Andrew P., Joseph L. Wooden, Carl E. Jacobson, and Kelly Probst. 2004. U-Pb geochronology and geochemistry of the McCoy Mountains Formation, southeastern Califronia: A Cretaceous retroarc foreland basin. GSA Bulletin. 116(1/2):142-153. {TAS-pdf}
	No collections made at this location.
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