Born From Fire Series 7 Mohave-Sonoran Belt

My Daughter an I went exploring last week an this region is just a couple miles from my home, it was mystical with the desert in bloom, an the landscape looked to be lava, so I researched it. I hope you have enjoyed !!
These are teddy bear cholla.

THE MOJAVE-SONORAN BELT
The Vidal-Parker region is part of a larger physiographic and geologic belt, which lies in the south central part of the Basin and Range province. It is south of the predominantly linear north-trending structures of the province, southwest of the southern periphery of the Colorado Plateau province, and northeast of the northwest-trending ranges within the San Andrea's and
central Mojave fault system The Vidal-Parker region is within the Sonoran Desert section of the Basin and Range province, it connects or is transitional between the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona and the Mojave Desert of southeastern California . Aside from its geologic and geophysical characteristics, the belt is distinguished physio-graphically by diversely oriented ranges, most of which are less linear and have less relief than most other ranges elsewhere in the Basin and Range province. Bedrock crops out in many of the valleys, and the slopes at the foot of the mountains are widely pedimented.
The most extensively exposed pre-Tertiary rock in the Vidal-Parker region is fairly uniform, finely banded, or
foliated feldspathic gneiss, that makes up the cores of several of the mountain ranges in the region. Much of the unit is mylonitic and superficially resembles metamorphosed flow-banded lava.