1 / 12

Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. WHERE IN THE WORLD IS…?. Your Ticket for a Safari into the Past. Our Earth as photographed by the Apollo 17 astronauts. Our Area of Interest. Salton Sea. Gulf of California. Baja California.

portia-tyson
Download Presentation

Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park WHERE IN THE WORLD IS…? Your Ticket for a Safari into the Past

  2. Our Earthas photographed by the Apollo 17 astronauts

  3. Our Area of Interest

  4. Salton Sea Gulf of California Baja California Southwestern Region of North America

  5. Salton Sea Borrego Badlands Salton Trough Area The Salton Trough & the Borrego Badlands STS51F-038-0045 Southern California, U.S.A., and Northwestern Mexico August 1985 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 20 May 2004. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth: Find Photos." <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/

  6. Plate Tectonics of the Eastern Pacific Ocean CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WEB AND DOWNLOAD THIS ANIMATION http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/download/pacnorth.php

  7. Plate Tectonics of Western North America CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WEB AND DOWNLOAD THIS ANIMATION http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/download/pacnorth.php

  8. Plate Movement Data from the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center at UCSD

  9. Faults & Features in the western Salton Trough & San Jacinto Fault Zone CCF Coyote Creek Fault SAF San Andreas Fault SFH San Felipe Hills fault SM Superstition Mountain CM Coyote Mountain FP Fonts Point Modified from Derek W. Ryter, Late Pleistocene Kinematics of the Central San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California, PhD.University of Oregon. 2002.

  10. Borrego Badlands Topographical Map of the Borrego Valley

  11. Borrego Badlands Aerial Photograph of Borrego Valley

  12. Geologic Map of California

More Related