Lake Mead - a view looking northwest toward Wheeler Ridge

This zoomed-in view is looking northwest toward Wheeler Ridge from along the Pierce Ferry Road (about 1 mile east along the unpaved section east of the intersection with the South Cover access road). Very steeply dipping strata of Paleozoic age crop out on the mountainside north of the road. Mojave yuccas (Yucca schidigera) are in the foreground (USDA, [2010f].