Eolian Dune Sand, Troy Dry Lake, California, USA
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Troy Dry Lake Unknown macro: {table-cell} |
Macro |
Location: |
Minneola Road, Try Dry Lake, 15 km east of Barstow, Mojave Desert, California, USA |
Depositional facies: |
Eolian dune |
Provenance: |
calcareous beach sediments |
Composition: |
calcarous, with lithics |
Texture: |
well sorted, medium grained, well polished surfaces of calcarous grains due to eolian processes |
Petrographic thin section:
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Bright field Unknown macro: {table-cell}
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Dark field |
Sample number |
heubeck0015 |
Collector |
Christoph Heubeck, Institut für Geologische Wissenschaften, FU Berlin |
Date of sampling |
1993 |
Comments:
Landschaftsaufnahme von der Webseite des US Forest Service,
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/projects/ecoregions/322ao_a_high.htm
