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Mono Lake Black Point (#0471)
Black Point, a volcanic hill on Mono Lake. Unfortunately I didn't know at the time that there's an interesting hike into fissures in the lava hill that are similar to slot canyons: www.americansouthwest.net/california/mono_lake/black-point-fissures.html
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Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv clubslgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… clubBtw, classic maars look a lot like impact craters and were at one point taken seriously as a model for lunar craters.
slgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… clubIn the so-called "pluvial" (i.e., the Ice Age, in the Pleistocene), essentially all of the closed basins in the Great Basin held lakes. If the levels got high enough the lakes would merge over the lowest sills between them. The big lakes, Lahontan and Bonneville, were on the west and east sides, respectively, of the Great Basin. Overall the east-west profile across the G.B. is convex in the middle, which is what localized to big lakes to either side. They still consisted of multiple sub-basins, however.
What happened in the Pleistocene was evidently that the ice cap covering the northern part of the continent drove all the storm tracks farther south, so that the Sierra got an enormous boost in snowfall (hence the growth of the huge mountain glaciers), and the mountains in the Great Basin got more precipitation as well. You even grew substantial glaciers in places like the Ruby Mountains, and smaller ones elsewhere as well. There's a classic old paper by Eliot Blackwelder, from the early 30s I think, on glacial evidence in the G.B. and surrounding areas.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv clubI realize that the peak at Great Basin NP would have been above the lakes, but somehow I thought most of ranges across central Nevada (e.g., south of Elko) were either underwater or didn't exist and were carved out by retreating glaciers.
When the conversation turns to such vast changes in climate, the effects of human seem comparatively miniscule :)
slgwv club has replied to Don Barrett (aka DBs… club>When the conversation turns to such vast changes in climate, the effects of human seem comparatively miniscule :)
You're developing a geologic perspective! ;)
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