Nevada Calls

More.  I'm having fun reliving my trip.  

Tonopah.  In two songs.  Who would have thought?

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest | searching for the middle of nowhere

Glad you got to see the trees. They really are something!

And another post.  

Grimes Point Area | searching for the middle of nowhere

Ski3pin:  I hadn't planned on traveling to the Owens Valley so I hadn't done any research.  I was a bit dismayed with what I found - all the comforts of civilization, not what I had anticipated.  Gorgeous country but I couldn't get over the fact that Hwy 395 is a four lane road.  After I left I found your Nov 2021 blog post on visiting the Owens Valley.  Maybe I'll give the area a try in the future.

Its not all four lane highway. 

OK, it wasn't all a four lane highway, but the four lanes is what I remembered most.      I had somehow created an image in my mind that 395 would be like a Nevada lonely road.  I was wrong.  

Last blog post.

Stopping in Oregon | searching for the middle of nowhere

I wonder if the peculiar shade of green at Green Mountain is because of the rock being an intrusive or extrusive intermediate lava, called andesite in the old nomenclature.  Andesitic igneous rocks are roughly between granitic/rhyolitic and gabbro/basaltic in overall iron/magnesium mineral content, and as such are often light grayish green rather than mostly white/buff or dark green/black.  The more zoomed  out picture looks like a "neck" or plug of intrusive rock representing the pipe-like vent, now exposed due to erosion of the surrounding less resistant flows and tuffs.

Nice pics!

Foy

Foy:  Thanks for your comments and thoughts.  I think you should go visit it and let me know your thoughts. ha ha     If you want to dive into the details, I've circled the "mountain" with a blue circle and included a link to the geology map and text.  I'm 99% sure the location is correct because I used my InReach to locate it.  I find it interesting that there is no specific mention of it (that I understand) in the text when it is very prominent in the landscape.  I brought some rock home.  In looking at them I see small (1/64th") rounded white specks.  I don't see any grains in the green that would make me think of something like a sandstone.  Keep in mind I'm not a geologist, I'm just fascinated by geology.  

Geologic map of the Lahontan Mountains quadrangle, Churchill County, Nevada (second edition) [MAP AND TEXT] (unr.edu)

Edited by searching for nowhere, 07 May 2022 - 06:27 PM.