Nevada Highway 28 - A

Eastern Mojave Vegetation	Nevada Highway 28
	Tom Schweich

	(No Preface)
Other articles: • California Highway 28: 60000;	Junction: California Highway 28, west around Lake Tahoe to California Highway 89 at Tahoe City. Placer County, California. Washoe County, Nevada.
Other articles: • Nevada Highway 431: at NV Hwy 28;	Junction: Nevada Highway 431, northeast over Mount Rose to US Highway 395 near Reno, Nevada.
Literature Cited: - Schweickert, Richard A, Mary M. Lahren, Robert Karlin, Jim Howle, and Ken Smith, 2000.	Incline Village Incline Village is named for a long inclined logging railway that carried sawed timbers from lake level to a wooden flume for transport to the silver mines of the Comstock Lode in Virginia City, Nevada. Park at the Union 76 station for Stop 2, "Scarp along Incline Village fault" from Lageson, Peters, and Lahren (2000), page 13.
Literature Cited: - Schweickert, Richard A, Mary M. Lahren, Robert Karlin, Jim Howle, and Ken Smith, 2000. Locations: Sand Harbor. Sand Point.	Sand Harbor Sand Harbor State Beach Recreation Area. Sand Harbor is Stop 3 on Lageson, Peters, and Lahren (2000), page 13, field trip around Lake Tahoe.
Literature Cited: - Schweickert, Richard A, Mary M. Lahren, Robert Karlin, Jim Howle, and Ken Smith, 2000.	Whittell Mansion, a.k.a., Thunderbird Lodge This was stop 4 in Lageson, Peters and Lahren (2000), page 13.
	Marlette Creek, trace of the Marlette Creek Fault.
	Washoe County, Nevada Carson City, Nevada
	Secret Harbor Creek
	Marshy area on east side of highway is sag pond at the intersection of Bliss Creek and Slaughterhouse Canyon fault.
Literature Cited: - Schweickert, Richard A, Mary M. Lahren, Robert Karlin, Jim Howle, and Ken Smith, 2000. Locations: Slaughterhouse Canyon.	Slaughterhouse Canyon Slaughterhouse Canyon, trace of the Slaughterhouse Canyon fault. In lower Prey Meadows below, a series of marshes occur along the fault. This is Stop 5, Slaughterhouse Canyon fault, in Schweickert, et al. (2000), p. 13.
	Carson City, Nevada Douglas County, Nevada
Other articles: • U. S. Highway 50: at Nev SR 28;	Spooner Junction Junction: US Highway 50 East over Spooner Summit to the Carson Valley, and then across Nevada into Utah. West, around the south end of Lake Tahoe, over Echo Summit, to Sacramento, California.
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