The Cottonwood Mountains dominate this 2018 study of the Inyo County high country, where the landscape is defined by dramatic elevation changes and essential water sources. Protected within Death Valley National Park, the terrain features significant relief at White Top Mtn and provides life-sustaining points like Burro Spring, Rest Spring, and Quartz Spring. These springs often determined historical travel routes through the arid Mojave Desert and provided water for early prospectors and explorers. The complex drainage systems are mapped in detail, including the steep descents of Bighorn Gorge, Dry Bone Canyon, and Perdido Canyon, showing the natural erosive forces that continue to shape this portion of the northern Panamint Range.
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1908 · Ballarat
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1913 · Ballarat
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1948 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1950 · Ubehebe Peak
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1951 · Ubehebe Peak
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1951 · Marble Canyon
USGS Topo · 1:62,500
1954 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1956 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Death Valley
USGS Topo · 1:250,000
1957 · Tin Mountain
USGS Topo · 1:62,500