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Interesting site-Onyx maybe

TMW - 12-4-2015 at 10:08 AM

Was looking around on GE and saw this. It looks like an Onyx field similar to the one at Gonzaga Bay. It is close to where we camped the second night on the PLR and rebuilt the road up out of the wash.



A closer look.


It appears to be about 300 feet in diameter. There is a road closer to the site but I could not make out one near the arroyo.

[Edited on 12-4-2015 by TMW]

David K - 12-4-2015 at 11:19 AM

It could be a mini dry lake? The soda spring/ onyx glacier behind Rancho Grande is quite white...

In either case, just another great reason to go explore Baja!

4x4abc - 12-4-2015 at 12:44 PM

I have driven there
it's a Llano - like a small dry lake bed

4x4abc - 12-4-2015 at 12:49 PM

the stuff west of Rancho Grande might be Onyx
we need to go and check it

David K - 12-4-2015 at 01:20 PM

Quote: Originally posted by 4x4abc  
the stuff west of Rancho Grande might be Onyx
we need to go and check it


Oh, it's onyx alright! Just below this 'glacier' are chunks of onyx like at El Marmol and El Volcan

David K - 12-4-2015 at 01:35 PM



Chris in 2002 at the onyx glacier (soda springs) with Gonzaga Bay in the background.

The photo above this one is Chris photographing me, and it shows how big this is.

4x4abc - 12-4-2015 at 03:04 PM

how productive is the spring?

David K - 12-4-2015 at 08:54 PM

It drips... has puddles... wet zone, but highly mineralized so no palms or even salt reeds like in Calamajué Canyon.