Lone Cone is a
prominent mountain summit
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The term (mountain top) is generally used ...
at the western end of the
San Miguel Mountains
The San Juan Mountains is a high and rugged mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The area is highly mineralized (the Colorado Mineral Belt) and figured in the gold and silver mining industry ...
range of the
Rocky Mountains of
North America
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. The peak is located west by south (
bearing 262°) of the
Town of Telluride,
Colorado,
United States, on the
drainage divide
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separating
San Juan National Forest and
Dolores County from
Uncompahgre National Forest and
San Miguel County.
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Geology
The mountain, a laccolith, is between 20 and 40 million years old and is the westernmost of over a dozen laccoliths that are the same age as rocks in the San Juan volcanic field.
Historical names
*Lone Cone – 1906 [
*West Point
]
See also
* List of Colorado mountain ranges
* List of Colorado mountain summits
** List of Colorado fourteeners
** List of Colorado 4000 meter prominent summits
** List of the most prominent summits of Colorado
* List of Colorado county high points
References
External links
Mountains of Colorado
Mountains of Dolores County, Colorado
Mountains of San Miguel County, Colorado
San Juan National Forest
Uncompahgre National Forest
North American 3000 m summits
Laccoliths
Volcanoes of Colorado
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