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Crown Mountain (Texas)
Crown Mountain is a summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Crown Mountain is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the sixth-highest peak in this park, mountain range, and county, but only the 34th-highest in Texas. The mountain is composed of volcanic rock of the Chisos Formation which formed during the Paleogene period. Robert G. Bohannon, 2011, U.S. Geological Survey. Although modest in elevation, is significant as the summit rises nearly 2,000 feet (610 m) above Pine Canyon in , and 2,650 feet (808 m) ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lost Mine Peak
Lost Mine Peak is a summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Lost Mine Peak is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the third-highest peak in the park, mountain range, and county, but only the 20th-highest in Texas. The mountain is composed of volcanic rock which formed during the Oligocene period. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,150 feet (655 m) above Pine Canyon in , and 2,550 feet (777 m) above Juniper Canyon in . Based on the Köppen climate classification, Lost Mine Peak is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into the Rio Grande watershed. The lower slopes of the peak are covered by juniper, oak, and piñon. The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names. The peak's name comes from a legend of Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Grande
The Rio Grande ( and ), known in Mexico as the Río Bravo del Norte or simply the Río Bravo, is one of the principal rivers (along with the Colorado River) in the southwestern United States and in northern Mexico. The length of the Rio Grande is . It originates in south-central Colorado, in the United States, and flows to the Gulf of Mexico. The Rio Grande drainage basin (watershed) has an area of ; however, the endorheic basins that are adjacent to and within the greater drainage basin of the Rio Grande increase the total drainage-basin area to . The Rio Grande with its fertile valley, along with its tributaries, is a vital watersource for seven US and Mexican states, and flows primarily through arid and semi-arid lands. After traversing the length of New Mexico, the Rio Grande becomes the Mexico–United States border, between the U.S. state of Texas and the northern Mexican states of Chihuahua and Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas; a short segment of the Rio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two-thousanders Of The United States
Two-thousanders are mountains that have a height of at least 2,000 height above sea level, metres above sea level, but less than 3,000 metres. The term is used in Alpine circles, especially in Europe (e.g. German: ''Zweitausender''). The two photographs show two typical two-thousanders in the Alps that illustrate different types of mountain. The Säuling (top) is a prominent, individual peak, whereas the Schneeberg (bottom) is an elongated limestone massif. In ranges like the Allgäu Alps, the Gesäuse or the Styrian-Lower Austrian Limestone Alps the mountaineering, mountain tour descriptions for mountaineers or hikers commonly include the two-thousanders, especially in areas where only a few summits exceed this level. Examples from these regions of the Eastern Alps are: * the striking Nebelhorn (mountain), Nebelhorn (2,224 m) near Oberstdorf or the Säuling (2,047 m) near Neuschwanstein, * the Admonter Reichenstein (2,251 m), Eisenerzer Reichenstein (2,165&nb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Texas
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited summit area, and is usually higher than a hill, typically rising at least 300 metres (1,000 feet) above the surrounding land. A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in mountain ranges. Mountains are formed through tectonic forces, erosion, or volcanism, which act on time scales of up to tens of millions of years. Once mountain building ceases, mountains are slowly leveled through the action of weathering, through slumping and other forms of mass wasting, as well as through erosion by rivers and glaciers. High elevations on mountains produce colder climates than at sea level at similar latitude. These colder climates strongly affect the ecosystems of mountains: different elevations have different plants and animals. Because of the less hospitable terrain and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casa Grande Peak
Casa Grande Peak is a mountain summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Casa Grande Peak is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the fifth-highest peak in this park, mountain range, and county, but only the 26th-highest in Texas. The peak is an extra-caldera vent, or volcanic dome, of the Pine Canyon caldera which formed about 32–35 million years ago during a period of volcanic activity. United States Geological Survey, 2010. Although modest in elevation, is significant as the summit rises 2,000 feet (610 m) above Chisos Basin in less than . Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toll Mountain
Toll Mountain is a summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Toll Mountain is located in the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the fourth-highest peak in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, and the Chisos Mountains, but only the 25th-highest in Texas. The mountain is composed of Extrusive rock, extrusive volcanic rock which formed during the Oligocene period. Based on the Köppen climate classification, Toll Mountain is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into Oak Creek, Blue Creek, and Juniper Draw which are all part of the Rio Grande watershed. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2,600 feet (792 m) above Juniper Canyon in . The lower slopes of the peak are covered by juniper, oak, and piñon. The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1948 by the United States Board on Geographic Names to remember Roger W. Toll (1883–1936), A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Townsend Point
Townsend Point is a mountain summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Townsend Point is located in the Chisos Mountains. It ranks as the second-highest peak in Big Bend National Park, Brewster County, and the Chisos Mountains, but only the 19th-highest in Texas. The mountain is composed of extrusive volcanic rock which formed during the Oligocene period. The slopes of the peak are covered by juniper, oak, and piñon. Based on the Köppen climate classification, Townsend Point is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into Fresno Creek and Juniper Draw which are both part of the Rio Grande watershed. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,250 feet (990 m) above Juniper Canyon in . The mountain's toponym was officially adopted in 1981 by the United States Board on Geographic Names to remember Everett Ewing Townsend (1871–1948) who was res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nugent Mountain
Nugent Mountain is a summit in Brewster County, Texas, United States. Description Nugent Mountain is located in Big Bend National Park and the Chisos Mountains. The mountain is composed of intrusive igneous rock which formed during the Oligocene period. Although modest in elevation, topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 1,600 feet (488 m) above the Rio Grande Village Road in . Based on the Köppen climate classification, Nugent Mountain is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. Any scant precipitation runoff from the mountain's slopes drains into the Rio Grande watershed. The mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names, and has been reported in publications as early as 1913. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geography Of Texas
The geography of Texas is diverse and large. Occupying about 7% of the total water and land area of the U.S., it is the second largest state after Alaska, and is the southernmost part of the Great Plains, which end in the south against the folded Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. Texas is in the South Central United States of America, and is considered to form part of the U.S. South and also part of the U.S. Southwest. By residents, the state is generally divided into North Texas, East Texas, Central Texas, South Texas, West Texas and, sometimes, the Panhandle, but according to the '' Texas Almanac'', Texas has four major physical regions: Gulf Coastal Plains, Interior Lowlands, Great Plains, and Basin and Range Province. This has been cited as the difference between human geography and physical geography, although the fact that Texas was granted the prerogative to divide into as many as five U.S. states may be a historical motive for Texans defining their state as conta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountain Peaks Of Texas
This is a list of mountains in the state of Texas greater than 2,000 feet. References {{Mountains of Texas Texas Texas (, ; Spanish language, Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2 ... Mountain peaks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Board On Geographic Names
The United States Board on Geographic Names (BGN) is a federal body operating under the United States Secretary of the Interior. The purpose of the board is to establish and maintain uniform usage of geographic names throughout the federal government of the United States. History On January 8, 1890, Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, superintendent of the US Coast and Geodetic Survey Office, wrote to 10 noted geographers "to suggest the organization of a Board made up of representatives from the different Government services interested, to which may be referred any disputed question of geographical orthography." President Benjamin Harrison signed executive order 28 on September 4, 1890, establishing the ''Board on Geographical Names''. "To this Board shall be referred all unsettled questions concerning geographic names. The decisions of the Board are to be accepted y federal departmentsas the standard authority for such matters." The board was given authority to resolve all unsettled q ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Arid Climate
The desert climate or arid climate (in the Köppen climate classification ''BWh'' and ''BWk''), is a dry climate sub-type in which there is a severe excess of evaporation over precipitation. The typically bald, rocky, or sandy surfaces in desert climates are dry and hold little moisture, quickly evaporating the already little rainfall they receive. Covering 14.2% of earth's land area, hot deserts are the second most common type of climate on earth after the polar climate. There are two variations of a desert climate according to the Köppen climate classification: a hot desert climate (''BWh''), and a cold desert climate (''BWk''). To delineate "hot desert climates" from "cold desert climates", there are three widely used isotherms: most commonly a mean annual temperature of , or sometimes the coldest month's mean temperature of , so that a location with a ''BW'' type climate with the appropriate temperature above whichever isotherm is being used is classified as "hot arid subty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
