Backcountry Roads
Geology Tour Road
The Geology Tour Road is an 18-mile, self-guiding driving tour along a dirt road winding through some of the park's most fascinating rockscape. 4-wheel-drive vehicles are recommended beyond stop #9, Squaw Tank.To continue, please start with the Introduction, or click Begin Here on the map.
Introduction
The face of the earth at any time represents only a fleeting moment in a very long ...
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1_ Queen Valley
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Queen Valley, a mountain-rimmed valley at an elevation of 4,450 feet is ...
2_ A Raindrop Divides
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This knoll is the north-south drainage divide for the park. Typically, ...
3_ Nature's Gutter
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This is a dry intermittant stream channel, more commonly known as a ...
4_ Old Erosional Level
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Many of the monzogranite boulders here bear a distinct ...
5_ Rock Piles
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The monzogranite forming these rock piles was once a ...
6_ Rock Sculpture
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The White Tank monzogranite found at Joshua Tree National Park ...
7_ Malapai Hill
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The twin peaks of Malapai Hill rise about 400 feet above the ...
8_ Alluvial Fans and Bajadas
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Alluvial fans are made up of sand, gravel and rock which ...
9_ Squaw Tank
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Squaw Tank is an excellent place to observe interesting ...
10 Pleasant Valley
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The Blue Cut fault is an earthquake fault that runs for about ...
11 Debris Flow
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Occuring at the mouth of this steep canyon in the Hexie Mountains,...
12 Mines
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The Hexie Mountains slopes are riddled with mine tunnels ...
13 Dry Lake
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The upheaval of the Hexie Mountains with subsidence of ...
14 Pinto Gneiss
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The banded and folded Pinto gneiss, approximately ...
15 Pinyon Well Junction
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This is the alluvial fan at the upper end of the bajada ...
16 Panoramic View
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In this tour of the Queen and Pleasant Valley's, we've seen ...
Squaw Tank granite
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