Eastern California
March, 2002

Multicolored tuffs at Red Rock, near the Nevada border (not Red Rock Canyon in S. Nevada)
 

Matterhorn Peak (left) and Sawtooth Ridge in the Sierras near Bridgeport
 

Morning sun on the Argus Range from Panamint Valley
 

Alluvail fans and cones below Panamint Butte; note the levees on the
channel of the alluvial cone on the right
 

Death Valley (-282 ft) viewed from Dante's View
 

The Devil's Golf Course in the playa bottom of Death Valley
 

The smooth wedge shape of an aluvial fan on the east side of Death Valley
 

Our Honda coming down Titus Canyon
 

Jeanne and Wagner in front of the carbonate breccia in Titus Canyon
 

The Miocene welded tuff at Resting Springs Pass near Shoshone.  Exposed is
a single ash flow tuff, the color variation reflects the degree of welding the black
is densely welded and vitric (essentially obsidian)
 

The transition from tan to brown to black with increasing
degree of welding in the tuff at Resting Springs Pass
 

Ubehebe Crater in northern Death Valley National Park, a Holocene basaltic eruptive center
 

Eureka Dunes in front of the Last Chance Range; the Eureka Dunes are
the highest in California
 

High on the Eureka Dunes
 

A sunset glow on the Last Chance Range
 

The Moon rising over the Last Chance Range
 

Spectacularly well developed columnar joints in the Bishop Tuff
 

The Mono Craters, a north-south chain of Holocene rhyolite domes
 

Panum Crater, the northernmost of the Mono Craters, where a pyroclastic rim surrounds a small rhyolite dome