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Isolated Mass, Circumflex


Name: Isolated Mass, Circumflex
Category: Cultural
Archive ID#: NV3191
 
Description: The ninth of Michael Heizer's "Nine Nevada Depressions" made around the state in 1968. This one is a circular loop made in a dry lake bed surface, at Massacre Dry Lake, near Vyo, Nevada. Six tons of earth was displaced, making a one foot wide trench, around 120 feet long, with the loop being 12 feet in diameter. Commissioned by Robert Scull. Apparently, no traces remain.
Location: Massacre Dry Lake, NW corner of Nevada
(POINT(-119.6000003814 41.6611862182))
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Address: NV
Washoe County
Links: http://www.rodencrater.org/spaces/contemp/1.htm
LCS: Cultural, Land Art
   
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