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Trona Pinnacles

On our way to the Mojave Desert, we explored the Pinnacles in Trona, CA. We then camped a few miles outside of Trona.


From Wikipedia (for those interested!) The Trona Pinnacles are an unusual geological feature in the California Desert National Conservation Area.[1] The unusual landscape consists of more than 500 tufa spires (porous rock formed as a deposit when springs interact with other bodies of water), some as high as 140 feet (43 m), rising from the bed of the Searles Lake (dry) basin. The pinnacles vary in size and shape from short and squat to tall and thin, and are composed primarily of calcium carbonate (tufa). They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.



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