Doggone, this topic sent me off Googling for pictures, and there are few to none.
Sorry, Steve C, but many thanks for your research. I am just fascinated by odd and curious things I see along the way in my trail of life.
And many, many thanks to all who offered their explanations to the odd and curious in the Sierra Nevada.
Yes, avalanche. Seen the damage done while on SoCal's San Gorgonio's north slope. Fallen trees everywhere blocking the trail.
One day I found an obsidian in the middle of a meadow while looking for wild onions near Tioga Lake in YNP. It caught my eye immediately...all black and shiny. It is about the size of a half-dollar coin. I look around the area and find no others. I ask, "Now how did you get here?"
Yes, I brought it home with me.
Then I get home, turn on the computer...
Come to find out it could be the remnant of the Long Valley Caldera blast or the numerous blasts that have occured near and around Mammoth. I am fascinated with fault lines, plate tectonics, scarps, earthquakes, and volcanos and how they sculpted the Sierra Nevada.
Fascinating.
Will I return the rock to its former spot? Yes.
