Soil survey of the Saline Valley area, Inyo County, California
By: by James C. Wardlaw, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Bakersfield District
Contributors: Wilkinson, Jim; United States. Bureau of Land Management. Bakersfield District
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 1979
Place of publication: Bakersfield, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Soil surveys; Soils; Management; Maps; Public lands
Description: The Saline Valley area is situated in Inyo County, California about 180 miles north of Los Angeles and 200 miles southeast of San Francisco. It contains roughly 700 square miles or 418,000 acres. The valley itself is bounded on the west by the Inyo Mountains with elevations to 11,000 feet. To the south lies the Nelson Range, to the east the Panamint Range, and on the north it is bounded by the Saline Range. Death Valley Monument lies just east of Saline Valley. Differences in elevation are marked from a low of about 1,050 feet to a high of about 11,000 feet within a distance of 10 miles. Major fieldwork for this soil survey was completed in the period May through September, 1976.
Notes: "Landform mapping and field assistance by: Carl Hansen, Charles Hutchinson, Zvi Brenner, and Karl vonSchlieder."

"Cartographic work completed by Jim Wilkinson."

"Illustrations done by Yolonde Brown ; word processing done by Judy Maudlin and Tonni Woodward."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 300-301).