Day 2 - Kingston Peak Fmt Diamictites 2/17-25/24

Pahrump Group of rocks. While the students opted to forego the hike, we hoofed it out to make a photosphere of the evidence supporting Snow Ball Earth that…
Green distant valley, snow-capped Panamint Range and cinder hill split by right-lateral faulting in center of photo.
Ventifact.
Kingston Peak Fmt on top with Beck springs and Crystal Peak underlying it.
Found a mylar balloon in the wilderness.
Found a mylar balloon in the wilderness. Packed it out.
Flowers on the wash were amazing.
Desert Gold with over a billion years of geologic history in the background.
Laura and Z hiked behind me while I set up some technical shots.
verbena
Quite a cool block of diamictites! These cobbles were once plucked off a river bed by glaciers, floated out to sea in an iceberg and then melted and dropped…
Vans for scale.
Z has been lucky and has only ever seen this area with greenery the past two years.
Happy kid.
Flowers, family and old rocks. An OK day.
The kid is getting as long as his shadow.
Really neat cobble dropstone.
Beware of animal burrows.

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