Paleontology Investigations in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park

Your Ticket for a Safari into the Past

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS…?

Our Earthas photographed by the Apollo 17 astronauts

Our Area of Interest

Southwestern Region of North America

Baja California

Gulf of California

Salton Sea

The Salton Trough & the Borrego Badlands

STS51F-038-0045 Southern California, U.S.A., and Northwestern Mexico August 1985 Earth Sciences and Image Analysis, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 20 May 2004. "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth: Find Photos." <http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/clickmap/

Borrego Badlands

Salton Trough Area

Salton Sea

Plate Tectonics of the Eastern Pacific Ocean

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WEB AND DOWNLOAD THIS ANIMATION

http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/download/pacnorth.php

Plate Tectonics of Western North America

CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE WEB AND DOWNLOAD THIS ANIMATION

http://animations.geol.ucsb.edu/download/pacnorth.php

Plate Movement Data from the Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center at UCSD

Faults & Features in the western Salton Trough & San Jacinto Fault Zone

CCF Coyote Creek Fault

SAF San Andreas Fault

SFH San Felipe Hills fault

SM Superstition Mountain

CM Coyote Mountain

FP Fonts PointModified from Derek W. Ryter, Late Pleistocene Kinematics of the Central San Jacinto Fault Zone, Southern California, PhD. University of Oregon. 2002.

Topographical Map of the Borrego Valley

Borrego Badlands

Aerial Photograph of Borrego Valley

Borrego Badlands

Geologic Map of California