Query:

Frank DeCourten in The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology, waxes poetic about a night spent at the Sump with his students. It's a place of clear skies and majestic views in addtion to the many fossils in the mid-Cenozoic graveyard.

Articles that refer to this location:

• Field Notes: 26 May 2004;  26 May 2004;  22 June 2015 at The Sump; 
• Nevada Highway 773: The Sump; 

Literature Referring To This Location:

• DeCourten, Frank L. 2003. The Broken Land: Adventures in Great Basin Geology. Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah Press, 2003. {TAS}

The Sump, Esmeralda County, Nevada	Faulted lake beds in The Sump.	The Sump as seen from above.	Lake bed outcrops on one side of the sump.

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Date and time this article was prepared:3:15:36 PM, 8/1/2026.