2021-12-23, 02:48 PM
I'm curious to know what that looks like. Can you (or anyone else reading this) share a picture or two?
I looked into those core holes. They were sampled in 1986 by USGS researchers compiling a map of geologic units across the Mojave Desert (and to fill in some local Death Valley geologic maps). The rocks of that and the neighboring lava-capped hills are a miocene andesite flow correlated to the opening and rifting of Death Valley ~8.6 million years ago. Theres a great resource called EarthChem where the world's geochemists submit geochemistry for viewing and download.
I looked into those core holes. They were sampled in 1986 by USGS researchers compiling a map of geologic units across the Mojave Desert (and to fill in some local Death Valley geologic maps). The rocks of that and the neighboring lava-capped hills are a miocene andesite flow correlated to the opening and rifting of Death Valley ~8.6 million years ago. Theres a great resource called EarthChem where the world's geochemists submit geochemistry for viewing and download.
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