| This is a view southeast along the same wash shown in the preceding image. A dusting of snow caps the Coso Mountains. At upper left can be seen the greenish-brown badlands-forming exposures of the Upper Miocene to Middle Pliocene Coso Formation, which yields many fossil vertebrate roughly 4.8 to 3.0 million years old. That area is almost certainly now within the Coso Range Wilderness; picture taken long before such a Federal designation. |