Ah the mornings are beautiful on the Sierras. We headed out today to take a look at the extensional forces at work in the Owens Valley. To think, at one point within the last 20-40 million years, there was no Owens Valley. Rather, the Sierras and White-Inyos were together.
Up on the Tablelands, there is a really neat outcrop showing the normal faulting associated with the extension of the valley. In the afternoon, we ventured above the outcrop to take a look at more fault scarps and their accommodation zones.
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