San Gorgonio Pass landscape: land of geologic complexity
By Geology, Minerals, Energy, and Geophysics Science Center
June 1978 (approx.)
Detailed Description
Photograph from summit of San Jacinto Peak looking north across San Gorgonio Pass toward San Gorgonio Mountain. San Gorgonio River and Interstate Highway 10 traverse the Pass lowland; the Whitewater River drains the San Bernardino Mountains and flows eastward into the Salton Trough. San Gorgonio Pass is known as a geologically complex segment of the San Andreas Fault that traverses the landscape from southeast to northwest (white arrows mark the approximate trace of one of the multiple fault lines in the Pass region).
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