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Hiking on the west side of the Split Rock Trail. Top photo is heading north and bottom photo is where we came from.
go back almost 2 billion years. At this time the now arid scorching Mojave desert, was rolling grassland filled with tigers, horses, and camels. But when magma from the earths mantle began to the heat the Earth's crust it created an igneous rock called monzogranite. This monzogranite shaped in three different ways. The first way creates a horizontal rock layer. Through erosion and weathering it creates a metamorphic rock called gneiss. The second shape of the monzogranite creates high jagged cliffs, these rocks are constantly changing from water erosion. The third and last form of the monzogranite also creates a vertical rock layer, but through flash flood it creates the huge rock piles we see today.
go back almost 2 billion years. At this time the now arid scorching Mojave desert, was rolling grassland filled with tigers, horses, and camels. But when magma from the earths mantle began to the heat the Earth's crust it created an igneous rock called monzogranite. This monzogranite shaped in three different ways. The first way creates a horizontal rock layer. Through erosion and weathering it creates a metamorphic rock called gneiss. The second shape of the monzogranite creates high jagged cliffs, these rocks are constantly changing from water erosion. The third and last form of the monzogranite also creates a vertical rock layer, but through flash flood it creates the huge rock piles we see today.
Apr 10 2023