Shoreline Butte. Wavecut benches are evidence of the once massive Lake Manly shorelines that occupied Death Valley.
A straight line of Basalt fissure flows along a large normal Fault near Shoreline Butte.
Near Mormon Point looking at the water and clouds in teh distance.
Desert shaggy mane. A really interesting fungus!
Desert shaggy mane. A really interesting fungus!
Just some 1.8Ga gneiss. NBD.
Seeing the Mormon Point Turtleback, AKA detachment fault.
Z was always eating, even while searching for great samples.
Interesting patterns of large blocky boulders and sandy washes.
Looking towards Artist Drive area.
Gneiss and epidote.
Gneiss and epidote.
Students check out the metamorphic rocks that make the surface of the detachment fault.
Mudcracks and a history lesson.
Our house would hae a rock garden made of this rok if possible.
