Lake Urmia Salt Sediment - Borrego Springs, CA
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
N 33° 14.438 W 116° 23.331
11S E 556936 N 3678129
A specimen from Lake Urmia in Iran on display at the Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Station in Borrego Springs, California.
Waymark Code: WM17J52
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 02/25/2023
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member Alfouine
Views: 2

I stayed here two nights while on an overnight field geology trip to the region from UC Riverside. There are 4 main rooms, each with about 4 bunk beds each. There's also a separate building with 4 private rooms for professors. Inside is a classroom, kitchen, mens and womens restrooms with showers and dining hall.

Taken from Wikipedia, "The Steele Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center is a research center at the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California. The facility is a spawn of the joint partnership between the University of California, Irvine, the Anza-Borrego Foundation, and the administration of the state park. UC Irvine originally had facilities on 3.75 acres of land in the area, and their reach was expanded by a 75-acre donation from the Anza-Borrego Foundation. The facility was formerly a country club. The complex includes a hall, two classrooms, a laboratory, and a kitchen. The area in which the facility is located receives 5-7 inches of rain per year."
Type of Display: Geological

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