Mono Co., California, USA - Site Photo Gallery

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Bodie
	Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA Ghost town of Bodie. Gold was discovered here in 1859. Photo: June 2008.
© Filip Kopecky	Photo ID: 357836    View Count: 66
Bodie
	Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA Ghost town of Bodie. Building in the middle of the photo is a church. Photo: June 2008.
© Filip Kopecky	Photo ID: 357839    View Count: 77
Bodie
	Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA Ghost town of Bodie. June 2008.
© Filip Kopecky	Photo ID: 357842    View Count: 137
Bodie ghost town
	Bodie, Bodie District, Bodie Hills, Mono Co., California, USA The blue buildings under the hill is a gold stamp mill.In it's heyday the mill processed more than 14 million dollars worth of gold and silver in 25 years. Photo: June 2008
© Filip Kopecky	Photo ID: 357845    View Count: 105
Conchoidal fracture in obsidian at Panum Crater
	Panum Crater, Mono Craters, Mono Co., California, USA Magnificent example of conchoidal fracture in obsidian. Photo 2003.
© Norman King	Photo ID: 390500    View Count: 99
Detail of Mono Lake tufa column
	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA Close-up of the base of a tufa column.
© Norman King	Photo ID: 351338    View Count: 107
Mono Craters
	Mono Craters, Mono Co., California, USA Mono Craters are a chain of volcanic mountains which began to form during the last ice age. Pumice covers the valley to a depth of 20 + feet. Photo by Peter Cristofono, October 1998.
© 1998 Peter Cristofono	Photo ID: 123947    View Count: 326
Mono Lake terraces
	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA These lake terraces, some as much as 200 m above the current lake level, show how low the lake level is currently. This has been caused largely by decades of water diversion to southern California, when half of the volume of the lake has been lost. Steps have begun to re-establish natural flows of feeder streams and decrease water withrawals to ...
© Norman King	Photo ID: 351328    View Count: 91
Mono Lake tufa towers in a line
	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA The Mono Lake tufa towers formed under water when the lake level was higher. Subsurface water, much of it from the near-by Sierra Nevada Mountains, flowed into the lake basin and found the easiest routes to the lake bed. As dissolved minerals came out of solution at the seepage point where underground water entered the lake, mounds of tufa formed, ...
© Norman King	Photo ID: 351336    View Count: 134
Mono Lake, California
	Mono Lake, Mono Co., California, USA Tufa deposit in Mono lake.
	Photo ID: 457292    View Count: 98