^Rhino! wrote:ygmir wrote:*wanders in, starts ECM*
Hi gang!!1
well, summer is starting, weekends filling..........and I'm so looking forward to the Hof party (ies) and all...........
And, MDF and Elorrum will (hopefully, dawgs willing) be here in about 3 weeks, one thing we hope to do is a geology drive to Reno and back, maybe a fun luncheon type thing in Reno with folks?
**drips with envy at the suggestion of a 'geology drive'**
you might like it, Rhino:
we'll leave Nevada City, up hwy 49, where several cuts and canyons cross the "Mariposa formation", arguably the heaviest gold bearing in the entire mother load, serpentine dikes, old river channel, up to the basic granites of the Sierra Nevada batholith . Volcanics around the Sierrya Buttes, then, over Yuba Summit, down into the Sierra Valley, an ancient high elevation lake bed, surrounded by hot springs and such, across the uplift of the great basin materials on the east side and down into Reno. Then, back across Donner summit, where I'll be able to point out to MDF and Elorrum, the exact fault line of the eastern side (quite visible at Donner Lake), were the summit uplift takes place, and the glaciation creating Donner lake, the cirques of the high Sierras and a well formed glacial valley "Bear Valley" on the way back through pyroclastic flows and such on down and back home.
yes, I may have some terms screwed up.....but well, if you want to follow along on a map:
Nevada City-hwy49 to Downieville, Sierrya City, Loyalton, to hwy 70, east to Hallelujah Junction (via Beckwith pass), intersect hwy 395 south to Reno, Hwy 80 west back to Hwy 20, to Nevada City.
