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Covers an area of about 940 square kilometers centered on the Owens Valley of eastern California, with the town of Big Pine at the northern (top) edge. The rugged crest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains flanks the valley on the southwest, and the Inyo Mountains lie along the eastern edge. The texture layer is a Landsat 7 RGBI image from July 2, 1999 that uses the 15-meter panchromatic band 8 to sharpen a 30-meter natural color image (bands 3-2-1). This is a desert landscape with only sparse natural vegetation; some irrigated cropland is found near the Owens River. The scene principally illustrates geologic features, such as the glacially-sculpted Sierra crest (with partial snow cover) and broad alluvial fans stretching eastward from the mountain front. Recent basalt lava flows and cinder cones (dark gray to red tones) cover parts of the down-faulted Owens valley. The large cinder cone just south of Big Pine (Crater Mountain) is cut by two fault scarps visible as dark lines or color changes. The western fault line stretches southward (marked on its upslope side by patches of dark green vegetation) to the smaller cinder cone Red Mountain at the center of the scene.
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