West flank of the Black Mountains north of peak 4214, just south of Sheep Canyon in the lower right. Death Valley National Park, California. 1957.
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Date Taken
1957
Summary
Death Valley National Park, California. West flank of the Black Mountains north of peak 4214, just south of Sheep Canyon in the lower right. The skyline ridge dropping to Death Valley, left and center, is the approximate profile of the surface of the Copper Canyon turtle back and is underlain near the crest by broadly arched metasedimentary rocks that grade into metadiorite near Sheep Canyon. 1957. Figure 3, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 413.
Summary
Death Valley National Park, California. West flank of the Black Mountains north of peak 4214, just south of Sheep Canyon in the lower right. The skyline ridge dropping to Death Valley, left and center, is the approximate profile of the surface of the Copper Canyon turtle back and is underlain near the crest by broadly arched metasedimentary rocks that grade into metadiorite near Sheep Canyon. 1957. Figure 3, U.S. Geological Survey Professional paper 413.
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