It was a quick weekend trip of exploration. Our story is now up on our blog -
Pony Express Nevada - January 2015
We hope you enjoy tagging along.
Pony Express Nevada - January 2015
We hope you enjoy tagging along.
Foy, big congrats on the grandkids!Foy said:......................... which pleases us more is takes the form of a darling 2 year-old grandson and another, gender not yet known, on the way for a 2015 arrival. That, and duties related to an elderly mother preclude our consideration of pulling up stakes at any point in the foreseeable future.
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thanks Andy! We think we spotted your tire tracks out there.Lighthawk said:Fun to follow along and revisit old haunts as well as new opportunities.
Ya got that right Foy, I'm an old BLM archaeologist and I've spent many years doing allot of arch research out in that country and that whole area today is one big tufa formation with lot's of old tufa tubes staining for that once existing lake's surface; there are also quite a few hot springs and a few tule marshes still on the deserts edge. You can see the old Lanhontan shorelines clearly today! Lot's of basalt formations out there-complete with attendant prehistoric quarry sites, caves and lots places to explore. Something sort of interesting is that some of the formations out there are granitic in nature, not basaltic, like everything else. Even more interesting is that we found endocene bubbles/tubes (formed from within the lava inside of the rock) within some of them that erosion and pot hunters had exposed (they had been utilized during prehistoric times), as opposed to the usual exocene (formed by outside wind erosion, etc.,) caves most people are used to seeing. Anyway, enough of this geologic/ark speak, it is interesting country full of surprises!Foy said:Lastly, Ski's post from today concerning the Pyramid Lake petroglyphs indicated dating of the limestones upon which the works were carved showed the rock was around 14,000 years old. Since Pyramid is a Lanhontan sub-basin, the carvings were likely done on tufas on the Pyramid shoreline, then hundreds of feet higher than the remnants of Pyramid today.
A sardonic but good humored "gee, thanks buddy" to Ski, without whose inquisitiveness and photography skills I would have been able to reach my billable hours quota today. Keep 'em coming, Ski!
Foy
No, no, no, keep it coming!Smokecreek1 said:Anyway, enough of this geologic/ark speak, it is interesting country full of surprises!
Smoke