Flight to Split Mountain
This trip was taken on August 8, 2000. John Bartley and I had just finished a backpacking trip over Taboose Pass and into Cardinal Lake to work on the amazing metamorphic screen that underlies Split Mountain. We took off from Bishop in the morning for a 2-hour flight. John did most of the camera work.
Below are geologic maps of the target area. The first is a flat geologic map of the area, which straddles the boundary between the Big Pine 15' quadrangle (mapped by Paul Bateman) and the Mt. Pinchot 15' quadrangle (mapped by Jim Moore). Key locations are emphasized in blue. The metamorphic screen is the Carolina blue band that runs east and south from Split Mountain, labeled phq and Pzbs.
Here is a draped map of the Split Mt. (SM) area, looking west from a virtual altitude of about 20,000'. The thin screen of metamorphic rocks (other arrows) separates Jurassic Red Mt. Creek pluton from the Jurassic Tinemaha pluton.
