| Abstract: | Landscape features in the Mojave National Preserve are a product of ongoing processes involving tectonic forces, weathering, and erosion. Long-term climatic cycles (wet and dry periods) have left a decipherable record preserved as landform features and sedimentary deposits. This website provides and introduction to climate-driven desert processes influencing landscape features including stream channels, alluvial fans, playas (dry lakebeds), dunes, and mountain landscapes. Bedrock characteristics, and the geometry of past and ongoing faulting, fracturing, volcanism, and landscape uplift and subsidence influence the character of processes happening at the surface. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 53657 |
| Citation Author: | Stoffer, Philip W. |
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| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 2004-1007 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity; 2004; OFR; 2004-1007; Stoffer, Philip W. |
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| Text: | Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity; 2004; OFR; 2004-1007; Stoffer, Philip W. |
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| URL (INDEX PAGE): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/ |
| Date Other: | Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:00 -0600 |
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