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76 relations: Aberdeen, California, Alkali basalt, Alluvium, Arid, Artemisia tridentata, Atriplex confertifolia, Basalt, Basanite, Basin and Range Province, Big Pine, California, California, Cinder cone, Convection, Coso Volcanic Field, Crust (geology), Delamination, Depression (geology), Ericameria nauseosa, Farallon Plate, Fault (geology), Geothermal energy, Glacier, Graben, Greasewood, Independence, California, Inyo County, California, Last Glacial Maximum, Lava, Lava dome, Lherzolite, Lithosphere, Long Valley Caldera, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Magma, Mammoth Lakes, California, Mantle (geology), Mesozoic, Metasedimentary rock, Metavolcanic rock, Monogenetic volcanic field, Olivine, Owens Lake, Owens River, Owens Valley, Palagonite, Phenocryst, Plagioclase, Pleistocene, Pluton, ..., Pluvial lake, Post-glacial rebound, Proterozoic, Pyroclastic rock, Pyroxene, Pyroxenite, Quaternary, Rain shadow, Rhyolite, Semi-arid climate, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada Fault, Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block, Silicic, Slab (geology), Sporobolus airoides, Subduction, Tephra, Tinemaha Reservoir, U.S. Route 395, United States Geological Survey, Volcanic field, Water well, Wehrlite, White Mountains (California), Xenolith. Expand index (26 more) »
Aberdeen, California
Aberdeen (formerly Aberdeen Station and Tibbets) is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California.
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Alkali basalt
Alkali basalt or alkali olivine basalt is a fine-grained, dark-coloured, volcanic rock characterized by phenocrysts of olivine, titanium-rich augite, plagioclase feldspar and iron oxides.
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Alluvium
Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.
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Arid
A region is arid when it is characterized by a severe lack of available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
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Artemisia tridentata
Artemisia tridentata, commonly called big sagebrush,Mojave Desert Wildflowers, Pam MacKay, 2nd ed., 2013, Great Basin sagebrush or (locally) simply sagebrush, is an aromatic shrub from the family Asteraceae, which grows in arid and semi-arid conditions, throughout a range of cold desert, steppe, and mountain habitats in the Intermountain West of North America.
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Atriplex confertifolia
Atriplex confertifolia (shadscale) is a species of evergreen shrub in the Chenopodiaceae family, which is native to the western United States and northern Mexico.
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Basalt
Basalt is a common extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock formed from the rapid cooling of basaltic lava exposed at or very near the surface of a planet or moon.
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Basanite
Basanite is an igneous, volcanic (extrusive) rock with aphanitic to porphyritic texture.
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Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Big Pine, California
Big Pine (formerly, Bigpine) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cinder cone
A cinder cone or scoria cone is a steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as either volcanic clinkers, cinders, volcanic ash, or scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.
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Convection
Convection is the heat transfer due to bulk movement of molecules within fluids such as gases and liquids, including molten rock (rheid).
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Coso Volcanic Field
The Coso Volcanic Field is located in Inyo County, California, at the western edge of the Basin and Range geologic province and northern region of the Mojave Desert.
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Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
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Delamination
Delamination is a mode of failure for composite materials and steel.
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Depression (geology)
A depression in geology is a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.
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Ericameria nauseosa
Ericameria nauseosa (formerly Chrysothamnus nauseosus), commonly known as Chamisa, rubber rabbitbrush, and gray rabbitbrush, is a North American shrub in the sunflower family (Aster).
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Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic plate that began subducting under the west coast of the North American Plate—then located in modern Utah—as Pangaea broke apart during the Jurassic period.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy generated and stored in the Earth.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the Earth's crust bordered by parallel faults.
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Greasewood
Greasewood is a common name shared by several plants.
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Independence, California
Independence is a census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
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Inyo County, California
Inyo County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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Last Glacial Maximum
In the Earth's climate history the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) was the last time period during the last glacial period when ice sheets were at their greatest extension.
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Lava
Lava is molten rock generated by geothermal energy and expelled through fractures in planetary crust or in an eruption, usually at temperatures from.
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Lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome or volcanic dome is a roughly circular mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano.
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Lherzolite
Lherzolite is a type of ultramafic igneous rock.
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Lithosphere
A lithosphere (λίθος for "rocky", and σφαίρα for "sphere") is the rigid, outermost shell of a terrestrial-type planet, or natural satellite, that is defined by its rigid mechanical properties.
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Long Valley Caldera
Long Valley Caldera is a depression in eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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Magma
Magma (from Ancient Greek μάγμα (mágma) meaning "thick unguent") is a mixture of molten or semi-molten rock, volatiles and solids that is found beneath the surface of the Earth, and is expected to exist on other terrestrial planets and some natural satellites.
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Mammoth Lakes, California
Mammoth Lakes is a town in Mono County, California, the county's only incorporated community.
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Mantle (geology)
The mantle is a layer inside a terrestrial planet and some other rocky planetary bodies.
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Mesozoic
The Mesozoic Era is an interval of geological time from about.
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Metasedimentary rock
In geology, metasedimentary rock is a type of metamorphic rock.
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Metavolcanic rock
In geology, metavolcanic rock is a type of metamorphic rock.
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Monogenetic volcanic field
A monogenetic volcanic field is a type of volcanic field consisting of a group of small monogenetic volcanoes, each of which erupts only once, as opposed to polygenetic volcanoes, which erupt repeatedly over a period of time.
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Olivine
The mineral olivine is a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg2+, Fe2+)2SiO4.
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Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California.
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Owens River
The Owens River is a river in eastern California in the United States, approximately long.
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Owens Valley
Owens Valley is the colonial name of Payahǖǖnadǖ (Numic: place of flowing water), the, now, arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States, to the east of the Sierra Nevada and west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains on the west edge of the Great Basin section.
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Palagonite
Palagonite is an alteration product from the interaction of water with volcanic glass of chemical composition similar to basalt.
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Phenocryst
1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.
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Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
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Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often colloquially referred to as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch which lasted from about 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago, spanning the world's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
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Pluton
In geology, a pluton is a body of intrusive igneous rock (called a plutonic rock) that is crystallized from magma slowly cooling below the surface of the Earth.
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Pluvial lake
A pluvial lake is a body of water that accumulated in a basin because of a greater moisture availability resulting from changes in temperature and/or precipitation.
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Post-glacial rebound
Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the lifting of the huge weight of ice sheets during the last glacial period, which had caused isostatic depression.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth.
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Pyroclastic rock
Pyroclastic rocks or pyroclastics (derived from the πῦρ, meaning fire; and κλαστός, meaning broken) are clastic rocks composed solely or primarily of volcanic materials.
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Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated to Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
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Pyroxenite
Pyroxenite is an ultramafic igneous rock consisting essentially of minerals of the pyroxene group, such as augite, diopside, hypersthene, bronzite or enstatite.
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Quaternary
Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).
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Rhyolite
Rhyolite is an igneous, volcanic rock, of felsic (silica-rich) composition (typically > 69% SiO2 – see the TAS classification).
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Semi-arid climate
A semi-arid climate or steppe climate is the climate of a region that receives precipitation below potential evapotranspiration, but not as low as a desert climate.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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Sierra Nevada Fault
The Sierra Nevada Fault is an active seismic fault along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountain block in California.
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Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block
The Sierra Nevada-Great Valley Block (SNGV) is a section of the earth's crust in California encompassing most of the region east of the Great Valley fault system which runs along the eastern foot of the Coast Ranges, and west of the Sierra Nevada Fault which runs along the foot of the Sierra Nevada's eastern scarp.
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Silicic
Silicic is an adjective to describe magma or igneous rock rich in silica.
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Slab (geology)
In geology, a slab is the portion of a tectonic plate that is being subducted.
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Sporobolus airoides
Sporobolus airoides is a species of grass known by the common name alkali sacaton.
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Subduction
Subduction is a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates where one plate moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle.
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Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
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Tinemaha Reservoir
Tinemaha Reservoir is a reservoir created by a dam on the Owens River in the Owens Valley.
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U.S. Route 395
U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a U.S. Route in the western United States.
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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Volcanic field
A volcanic field is an area of the Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity.
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Water well
A water well is an excavation or structure created in the ground by digging, driving, boring, or drilling to access groundwater in underground aquifers.
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Wehrlite
Wehrlite is an ultramafic and ultrabasic rock that is a mixture of olivine and clinopyroxene.
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White Mountains (California)
The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley.
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Xenolith
A xenolith ("foreign rock") is a rock fragment that becomes enveloped in a larger rock during the latter's development and solidification.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Pine_volcanic_field
