| PROMINATE
DOME AT SOUTH END OF BLACK MESA |
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On first appearance this prominent dome, located in section 26
of the BCC topo, looks like a volcanic plug, but on closer
inspection it appears to be an erosional remanant of a Hickey
formation basalt flow.
Protozoic rock fragments are present up to ~=2653ft in the dome area.
- Dome
view from south end of mesa.
The bluish highly weathered basalt, below the burnt soil zone,
caps the south end of the mesa. The younger (Hickey?) black basalt
cab be seen flooring the dome. The very tip of the dome is also a
basalt cap.
- Dome substrait view from south.
This bluish highly weathered basalt is very disected on both
sides of the mesa.
- Basalt imbricated.
The bluish highly weathered basalt shows an unusual
imbricated pattern.
- Burnt soil below dome.
- Tip basalt oxidized.
- Top Ring very top of dome, basalt.
- Joints in dome base, basalt.
- Basalt dome base. I-17 is in the background.