When the rain brings enough moisture to some of California's driest regions it produces a good wildflower season. Evidence of the rain were displayed in bright patches of red, yellow, purple and white along the roadsides leading into Borrego Springs and Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The day ...
Almost a succulent, this tree can store water in its trunk and limbs. The bark periodically peels and sheds. Elephant trees are so rare that for many years, skeptics refused to acknowledge their existence. It wasn't until 1937 that this species was confirmed growing in the Anza-Borrego Deser...
CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ELEPHANT TREES FORMATION, ANZA BORREGO WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR DETERMINING THE DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENTS OF CONGLOMERATIC DEBRIS FLOWSSTEEL, Elisabeth
Insights into alluvial fan dynamics: Evolution of the Miocene Elephant Trees Formation, Anza Borrego Desert, CAE. SteelL. SimkinsL. ReynoldsM. Fidler