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f r o n t c o v e r:<br />

The Troy Lake arm of Manix Lake laps aga<strong>in</strong>st <strong>the</strong><br />

Newberry Mounta<strong>in</strong>s, January 24, <strong>2010</strong>.<br />

b a c k c o v e r:<br />

Above: The Barstow Formation <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> Mud Hills is <strong>the</strong><br />

type locality for <strong>the</strong> Barstovian land mammal age of<br />

<strong>the</strong> North American cont<strong>in</strong>ent. Biostratigraphic ranges<br />

of taxa are constra<strong>in</strong>ed by dated volcanic ashes and<br />

magnetostratigraphic polarity.<br />

Below: Strata of <strong>the</strong> Barstow Formation have been folded,<br />

faulted, and planed by erosion <strong>in</strong> <strong>the</strong> last 10 million years.<br />

The colorful Miocene sediments are unconformably overla<strong>in</strong><br />

by flat-ly<strong>in</strong>g tan arkosic sandstone.<br />

t i t l e pa g e:<br />

Rob Fulton kayaked on Silver Lake <strong>in</strong> 2005.<br />

2 <strong>2010</strong> Desert Symposium

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