Quaternary History of Mono Valley, California

acid ancient beaches ancient glaciers ancient lake ANNUAL REPORT PL Aurora Valley beds Black Point Bloody Cañon border bottom bowlders calcium carbonate Cañon glacier character cirques contorted coulées crest Dana débris deposited in Lake drainage EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT erosion eruption evidence fault flowed formed geologists glacial gorge gravel High Sierra ice-streams inclosed indicated lacustral sediments Lahontan basin Lake Lahontan Lake Mono lake surface Lakes Bonneville lapilli lateral moraines lava layers Leevining Creek lithoid tufa Lundy Cañon miles Mono basin Mono Craters Mono Valley morainal embankments mountains Negit Island névé névé field northern observed occupied orographic Paoha Island peaks portion precipitous present lake Quaternary Quaternary lake range recent region rise rock RUSSELL salts scarps shore shown side Sierra Nevada similar slope Sodium carbonate Sodium chloride southern springs strata stream sublacustral summit terminal moraines terraces thinolite crystals tion topography trough tufa crags U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY volcanic