| A couple of paleontology enthusiasts stand in a dry wash along the northern flanks of the Coso Range. Sediments in wash at upper right consist of the Pliocene Coso Formation, a bone-bearing unit which has yielded several species of 4.8 to 3.0 million-year-old mammal remains. The view is back northwestward to the dramatic eastern front of the Sierra Nevada. Probably this area is now part of the Federally designated and protected Coso Range Wilderness. Picture was taken long before such a Federal designation. |