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The Trona Pinnacles

Tufa spires rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin.

However it may appear to you, a visit to the Trona Pinnacles will be a journey into one of the most unusual geologic wonders in the California Desert.

This unique landscape consists of more than 500 tufa pinnacles rising from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin.  Tufa spires as high as 140 feet were formed underwater 10,000 to 100,000 years ago when Searles Lake formed a link in an interconnected chain of Pleistocene lakes stretching from Mono Lake to Death Valley.

The Trona Pinnacles were designated by the Department of the Interior as a National Natural Landmark in 1968 to protect one of the nation's best examples of tufa formation. 

• Learn more about The Trona Pinnacles

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Employee Profile:  Lynette Elser 

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Lynette Elsner

Lynette Elser provides guidance in the development of environmental documents for renewable energy projects in the California Desert.  This is a fairly new assignment, but Lynnette has been doing environmental work in the some aspect for most of her career. Read more...

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