Marble Mountains (San Bernardino County)

Marble Mountains
Marble Mountains
Highest point
Elevation	685 m (2,247 ft)
Geography
	Location of Marble Mountains in California
Country	United States
State	California
District	San Bernardino County
Range coordinates	34°36′56.983″N 115°33′44.967″W / 34.61582861°N 115.56249083°WCoordinates: 34°36′56.983″N 115°33′44.967″W / 34.61582861°N 115.56249083°W
Topo map	USGS Cadiz

The Marble Mountains are a mountain range in the Eastern Mojave Desert and within Mojave Trails National Monument, in San Bernardino County, California.^[1]

Geography[]

The Marble Mountains are located just north of Cadiz, California, and are south of Bristol Dry Lake and Amboy, California. The Old Woman Mountains are to the east, and Bullion Mountains to the west. The Sheep Hole Mountains and Twentynine Palms, California are to the southeast.

Geology[]

The Marble Mountains contain excellent exposures of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks.

The Marble Mountains Fossil Beds are the site of 550 million-year-old fossils of trilobites, which were among the first animals on earth with eyes and skeletons

Wilderness[]

Established in 1994 by the U.S. Congress, the Trilobite Wilderness encompasses the Marble Mountain range. The 37,308 acre wilderness area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management.^[2]