Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity
Open-File Report
2004-1007
By: Philip W. Stoffer
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Abstract
Landscape features in the Mojave National Preserve are a product of ongoing processes involving tectonic forces, weathering, and erosion. Long-term climatic cycles (wet and dry periods) have left a decipherable record preserved as landform features and sedimentary deposits. This website provides and introduction to climate-driven desert processes influencing landscape features including stream channels, alluvial fans, playas (dry lakebeds), dunes, and mountain landscapes. Bedrock characteristics, and the geometry of past and ongoing faulting, fracturing, volcanism, and landscape uplift and subsidence influence the character of processes happening at the surface.
Suggested Citation
Stoffer, P.W., 2004, Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2004-1007, Online, https://doi.org/10.3133/ofr20041007.
ISSN: 2331-1258 (online)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Desert Landforms and Surface Processes in the Mojave National Preserve and Vicinity |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 2004-1007 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr20041007 |
| Year Published | 2004 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Description | Online |