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Fairview Peak (Lincoln County, Nevada)
Fairview Peak may refer to *Fairview Peak (Gunnison County, Colorado), in the Sawatch Range *Fairview Peak (Oregon), in Lane County, Oregon, U.S. () *Fairview Peak (Churchill County, Nevada), in the Clan Alpine Mountains The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at above sea level. The mountains lie to th ... () * Fairview Peak (Lincoln County, Nevada), in the Fairview Range () {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview Peak (Gunnison County, Colorado)
Fairview Peak is mountain summit in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The mountain is located in Gunnison County, Colorado, and in the Gunnison National Forest. Geology During the Laramide Orogeny the area near Fairview Peak was lifted and Proterozoic basement rocks and overlying Paleozoic sedimentary rock were raised high above nearby valleys. After this uplift approximately 65 to 75 million years ago, there was a long period of erosion. The erosion of uplands and the accumulation of sediments in the valleys largely leveled the landscape. Approximately 34 million years ago, the Proterozoic and Paleozoic rocks were intruded by magma resulting in granitic stocks, dikes, and sills. Renewed uplift approximately 10 million years ago raised the region to the heights seen today. Fairview Peak was glaciated, and the most prominent glacial cirques are located on the north and east sides of the mountain where tarns and glacial deposits are found. The Fai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawatch Range
The Sawatch Range or Saguache RangeThe place name "Saguache” is pronounced “Sawatch” . This name derives from the Ute language noun "''sawup''" meaning "sand dunes" and is spelled using the Spanish language version of this name "Saguache". is a high and extensive mountain range in central Colorado which includes eight of the twenty highest peaks in the Rocky Mountains, including Mount Elbert, at elevation, the highest peak in the Rockies. The range is oriented along a northwest–southeast axis, extending roughly from in the north to in the south. The range contains fifteen peaks in excess of , also known as fourteeners. The range forms a part of the Continental Divide, and its eastern side drains into the headwaters of the Arkansas River. The western side of the range feeds the headwaters of the Roaring Fork River, the Eagle River, and the Gunnison River, tributaries of the Colorado River. The Sawatch mountains in general are high, massive, and relatively gentle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview Peak (Oregon)
Fairview Peak may refer to *Fairview Peak (Gunnison County, Colorado), in the Sawatch Range * Fairview Peak (Oregon), in Lane County, Oregon, U.S. () *Fairview Peak (Churchill County, Nevada), in the Clan Alpine Mountains The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at above sea level. The mountains lie to th ... () * Fairview Peak (Lincoln County, Nevada), in the Fairview Range () {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview Peak (Churchill County, Nevada)
Fairview Peak is a summit in the Clan Alpine Mountains of the U.S. state of Nevada. The elevation is . Fairview Peak was so named on account of the scenic views it affords. Variant names were "Fairview Cairn" and "Fairview Mountain". The ghost town of Fairview, Nevada takes its name from the nearby peak. 1954 earthquakes A very large earthquake doublet occurred on December 16, 1954. The Dixie Valley/Fairview earthquakes occurred four minutes apart, each with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). The initial shock measured 7.3 and the second shock measured 6.9 . Damage to man-made structures was minimal because the region was sparsely populated at the time, but oblique-slip motion on a normal fault resulted in the appearance of large fault scarp A fault scarp is a small step or offset on the ground surface where one side of a fault has moved vertically with respect to the other. It is the topographic expression of faulting attributed to the displacement of the land ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clan Alpine Mountains
The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at above sea level. The mountains lie to the west of the Desatoya Mountains and southeast of the Stillwater Range. The Augusta Mountains lie to the northeast and the New Pass Range to the east. A large part of the range, , lies within the Clan Alpine Mountains Wilderness Study Area. The Clan Alpine Mountains lie to the north and northwest of Highway 50.''Nevada Atlas & Gazetteer'', DeLorme, 8th ed., 2012, pp. 36, 37 and 44 Clan Alpine Mountains took its name from a nearby mining district. At least eight mines are located in the northwestern part of the range north of Healy Peak in the Bernice and Hoyt canyons on the northwest flank of the range. This mine group was worked from 1866 and known as the Bernice, Salina or Alamo district. The mines produced antimony, silver, gold and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairview Peak (Lincoln County, Nevada)
Fairview Peak may refer to *Fairview Peak (Gunnison County, Colorado), in the Sawatch Range *Fairview Peak (Oregon), in Lane County, Oregon, U.S. () *Fairview Peak (Churchill County, Nevada), in the Clan Alpine Mountains The Clan Alpine Mountains are a mountain range located in west-central Nevada in the United States. The range lies in a southwest-northeasterly direction in Churchill County, and contains Mount Augusta, at above sea level. The mountains lie to th ... () * Fairview Peak (Lincoln County, Nevada), in the Fairview Range () {{Geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
