Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
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Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
Your Ticket for a Safari into the Past
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS…?
Our Earthas photographed by the Apollo 17 astronauts
Our Area of Interest
Southwestern Region of North America
Baja California
Gulf of California
Salton Sea
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/
Borrego Badlands
Salton Trough Area
Salton Sea
Plate Tectonics of the Eastern Pacific Ocean
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Plate Tectonics of Western North America
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Plate Movement Data from the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center at UCSD
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 PointModified from Derek W. Ryter, Late Pleistocene Kinematics of the Central San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California, PhD. University of Oregon. 2002.
Topographical Map of the Borrego Valley
Borrego Badlands
Aerial Photograph of Borrego Valley
Borrego Badlands
Geologic Map of California