Next
Don Barrett (aka DBs travels)

Don Barrett (aka DBs travels) club

Posted: 13 Feb 2018

Taken: 04 Feb 2018

2 favorites     4 comments    318 visits

Location

Lat, Lng:  
You can copy the above to your favourite mapping app.
Address:  unknown

 View on map

See also...

Mountain Scenery Mountain Scenery

Keywords

desert •
California •
BLM •

Authorizations, license

Visible by: Everyone
Attribution + non Commercial + no derivative
318 visits

Mecca Hills CA (#0049)

Mecca Hills CA (#0049)
The vast majority of the Mecca Hills seem to be sandstone, this section was clearly something else but due to the sun I couldn't get a better shot.

Marie-claire Gallet, kiiti have particularly liked this photo

Comments
 slgwv
slgwv club
Remembering my class years ago-- This is the Orocopia Schist, a Cretaceous (IIRC) metamorphic unit that underlies the young sedimentary units. The contact is, of course, erosional, and in places you can find fragments of eroded schist in the overlying sedimentary rocks. One of the reasons we were out there as a class is that it had recently been realized that the Orocopia schist is essentially identical (in age, texture, composition, etc.) with the Pelona schist, which crops out on the north side of the San Gabes below the Antelope freeway. It was a natural inference that they're the same schist unit, offset on the San Andreas. This was one of the first pieces of evidence for very large (dozens of miles) lateral offsets on the San Andreas.

I have almost the same photo from my trip last fall:
www.ipernity.com/doc/289859/45847858/in/album/1029550
6 years ago.
Don Barrett (aka DBs… club has replied to slgwv club
Yours is better.... I'll pass this along to those who have asked..
6 years ago.
 Léopold
Léopold club
Where to climb and enjoy life.
6 years ago.
 Marie-claire Gallet
Marie-claire Gallet
Breathtaking !!!!!!
6 years ago.

Sign-in to write a comment.