Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co., California, USA

Thulite
Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park, Inyo Co., California, USA

Photo: John Sobolewski

Latitude: 36°42'11"N
Longitude: 117°48'54"W

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A N-S trending valley on the western side of the Death Valley National Park.

References

Fleming, E.L. (1891), California borax: Chem. News: 63: 248.

Gale, Hoyt Stoddard (1914b), Salt, borax, and potash in Saline Valley, Inyo County, California: USGS Bulletin 540: 416-421.

Gale, Hoyt Stoddard (1915), Salines in the Owens, Searles, and Panamint basins, southeastern California: USGS Bulletin 580: 251-323; […(abstract): Geol. Zentralbl., Band 27: 172 (1921)]: 303.

Waring, Clarence A. & E. Huguenin (1919), Inyo County: California Mining Bureau. Report 15: 62.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 347.

Ver Planck, Wm. E., Jr. (1958), Salt in California: California Division Mines Bulletin 25 (125 ?).

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 109, 200.

Hardie, L.A. (1968) The origin of the Recent nonmarine evaporate deposit of Saline Valley, Inyo County, California. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta: 32: 1287.

Hardie, L.A. and Eugster, H.P. (1970) The evolution of closed-basin brines. Mineralogical Society of America Special Paper 3: 273.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 190, 210, 256, 280, 284, 285, 368, 441

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Acanthite
Analcime
Andradite
Borax
Calcite
var: Travertine

Cryptomelane
Epidote
Glauberite
Gypsum
Halite

Quartz
Sepiolite
Silver
Thenardite
Titanite

Ulexite
Zoisite
var: Thulite

18 entries listed. 15 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

USA

California
- Inyo Co.
  - Death Valley National Park
    - Saline Valley

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