Surficial and bedrock geologic map database of the Kelso 7.5 Minute quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California
Open-File Report
2003-501
By: David R. Bedford
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Abstract
This geologic map database describes geologic materials for the Kelso 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California. The area lies in eastern Mojave Desert of California, within the Mojave National Preserve (a unit of the National Parks system). Geologic deposits in the area consist of Proterozoic metamorphic rocks, Cambrian-Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks, Mesozoic plutonic and hypabyssal rocks, Tertiary basin fill, and Quaternary surficial deposits. Bedrock deposits are described by composition, texture, and stratigraphic relationships. Quaternary surficial deposits are classified into soil-geomorphic surfaces based on soil characteristics, inset relationships, and geomorphic expression.
The surficial geology presented in this report is especially useful to understand, and extrapolate, physical properties that influence surface conditions, and surface- and soil-water dynamics. Physical characteristics such as pavement development, soil horizonation, and hydraulic characteristics have shown to be some of the primary drivers of ecologic dynamics, including recovery of those ecosystems to anthropogenic disturbance, in the eastern Mojave Desert and other arid and semi-arid environments.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Surficial and bedrock geologic map database of the Kelso 7.5 Minute quadrangle, San Bernardino County, California |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2003-501 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr03501 |
| Year Published | 2003 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center |
| Description | 1 Plate: 45.00 x 30.00 inches; Metadata |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | San Bernardino County |
| Other Geospatial | Kelso 7.5 minute quadrangle |
| Datum | National Geodetic Datum of 1929 |
| Projection | Universal Transverse Mercator projection |
| Scale | 24000 |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |