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Rogers Peak (California)
Rogers Peak is a summit in Inyo County, California, United States. Description Rogers Peak is the fourth-highest mountain of the Panamint Range, and it is set within Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert. Precipitation runoff from this mountain's east slope drains to Death Valley via Hanaupah Canyon, whereas the west slope drains to Panamint Valley via Wildrose and Tuber canyons. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Badwater Basin in . The mountain is composed of Precambrian-Cambrian limestone, a marine sedimentary rock. The summit offers a stunning 360-degree panorama of Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Nevada mountain range including the lowest and highest points in the contiguous United States: Badwater Basin and Mount Whitney. The summit of Rogers Peak has been used as a communications and instrumentation site by various government agencies since the late 1950s. This mountain's toponym has been officially adopted by the United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telescope Peak
Telescope Peak (Timbisha: Chiombe) is the highest point within Death Valley National Park, in the U.S. state of California. It is also the highest point of the Panamint Range, and lies in Inyo County. From atop this desert mountain one can see for over one hundred miles in many directions, including west to Mount Whitney, and east to Charleston Peak. The mountain was named for the great distance visible from the summit. Geography Telescope Peak is also notable for having one of the greatest vertical rises above local terrain of any mountain in the contiguous United States. Its summit rises above the lowest point in Death Valley, Badwater Basin at , in about , and about above the floor of Panamint Valley in about .''Southern California Atlas and Gazetteer'', DeLorme Mapping, 1990. This is comparable to the rises of other tall, but better known, U.S. peaks. It is even somewhat comparable to the rise of Mount Everest above its northern base on the Tibetan Plateau, a rise o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badwater Basin
Badwater Basin is an endorheic basin in Death Valley National Park, Death Valley, Inyo County, California, noted as the lowest point in North America and the United States, with a depth of below sea level. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the contiguous United States, is only to the northwest. The site itself consists of a small spring-fed pool of "bad water" next to the road in a sink; the accumulated salts of the surrounding basin make it undrinkable, thus giving it the name. The pool does have animal and plant life, including pickleweed, aquatic insects, and the Badwater snail. Badwater Crater, the lowest place on the planet Mars, is named after the basin due to their similarities. Adjacent to the pool, where water is not always present at the surface, repeated freeze–thaw and evaporation cycles gradually push the thin salt crust into hexagonal shapes. The pool is not the lowest point of the basin: the lowest point (which is only slightly lower) is sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountains Of Southern California
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 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 climate, mountains te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildrose Peak
Wildrose Peak is a summit in Inyo County, California, United States. Description Wildrose Peak is the eighth-highest mountain of the Panamint Range, and it is set within Death Valley National Park and the Mojave Desert. Precipitation runoff from this mountain's north slope drains to Death Valley via Trail Canyon, whereas the south slope drains to Panamint Valley via Wildrose Canyon. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises above Badwater Basin in . The mountain is composed of Precambrian-Cambrian limestone, a marine sedimentary rock. Hiking to the summit is via the 8.4-mile (round-trip) Wildrose Peak Trail which starts at the Wildrose Charcoal Kilns and gains 2,200 feet of elevation. The first mile of the trail climbs through pinyon–juniper woodland, and many hikers choose Wildrose Peak over Telescope Peak, daunted by the additional elevation gain and mileage of Telescope. The summit offers a stunning 360-degree panorama of Death Valley and the eastern Sierra Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geology Of The Death Valley Area
The exposed geology of the Death Valley area presents a diverse and complex set of at least 23 Formation (stratigraphy), formations of sedimentary units, two major gaps in the geologic record called unconformity (geology), unconformities, and at least one distinct set of related formations geologists call a group (geology), group. The oldest rocks in the area that now includes Death Valley National Park are extensively Metamorphism (geology), metamorphosed by intense heat and pressure and are at least Mesoproterozoic, 1700 million years old. These rocks were intruded by a mass of granite 1400 Year#Abbreviations yr and ya, Ma (million years ago) and later uplifted and exposed to nearly 500 million years of erosion. Marine deposition occurred neoproterozoic, 1200 to 800 Ma, forming thick sequences of conglomerate (geology), conglomerate, mudstone, and carbonate rock topped by stromatolites, and possibly glacial deposits from the hypothesized Snowball Earth event. Rifting thinned hug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
