Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
A picturesque view of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area can be seen March 15 from the Red Rock Canyon Visitor’s Center near Las Vegas. Millions of people visit the conservation area each year to view the canyon’s vivid colors, rock formations and unique features molded over more than 600 million years, as well as its archeological features, like pictographs and petroglyphs, left......
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
Keith Kelson, engineering geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, provides an example to other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologists of how clues from pre-historic and historic floods can help predict future flooding events during an exercise March 15 at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
Keith Kelson, engineering geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, background left, discusses how clues from pre-historic and historic floods can help predict future flooding events with other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologists during an exercise March 15 at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologist takes a picture of clay imprints on a canyon wall – a predictor indicating that previous pre-historic flood levels had not risen to that height in hundreds, or perhaps, thousands of years – during a paleoflood exercise March 15 at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
Keith Kelson, engineering geologist with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, left, discusses how clues from pre-historic and historic floods can help predict future flooding events with other U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologists during an exercise March 15 at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
Doug Bliss, chief of the Geotechnical and Engineering Services Branch, Regional Geotechnical Center, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Alaska District, center, discusses the Keystone Thrust Fault with Keith Kelson, engineering geologist with the Corps’ Sacramento District, right, and another geologist during a hike of the fault March 15 at Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologists and technicians from across the nation, seen in the distance, hike the Keystone Thrust Fault trail March 15 in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
Photo by Dena O'Dell | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District | 03.15.2018
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers geologists and technicians from across the nation, including Keith Kelson, center left, who conducted a paleoflood exercise with the group, hike the Keystone Thrust Fault trail March 15 in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area near Las Vegas....
