| Here, the view is looking slightly north of eastward, just downslope from Bassett point, to the eroded uppermost sediments of Late Pleistocene Lake Manix. The gully which runs just behind the individual standing in the image was loaded with abundant, perfectly preserved skeletal elements from the Tui Mojave Chub, indicating widespread lacustrine (lake) conditions in this part of the present-day Mojave Desert some 19,000 years ago. |