As an aside, the landscape in the “four corners” area, and for hundreds of miles in all directions can best be described as “tortured”. The earth has been twisted, bent, folded, scraped and otherwise gone through a miserable childhood. Lately I have spent hours on Google Earth just scouting around, initially surveying the unusual “ripples” that make up much of Nevada’s landscape. In additon to finding a lot of mining operations, I ran across some patterns that looked like glacial scars within most of the valleys! Hmmm, I thought, surely I’m not the first to notice these unusual markings in an area I’ve never heard mentioned to have held glaciers. Turns out, I’m not, an early greenie named Muir commented on the patterns back in the late 1800’s. Still in all, interesting — to me.
Google Earth - how it opens the eyes!