| Here's a view back westward to the snow-dusted Sierra Nevada. Just behind the jeep and the two paleontology enthusiasts, where the road passes through a minor reddish-brown ridge, is a splendid fossil locality, where abundant, striking "cabbage" algae remains and ostracodes (a minute bivalve crustacean) can be found in lacustrine (lake-deposited) facies of the Pliocene Coso Formation; picture taken long before the Coso Wilderness became established. |