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Sevier Desert
The Sevier Desert is a large arid section of central-west Utah, United States, and is located in the southeast of the Great Basin. It is bordered by deserts north, west, and south; its east border is along the mountain range and valley sequences at the perimeter of the Great Basin, with the large north–south Wasatch Range and its associated mountainous landforms. Its eastern border is specifically, the East Tintic, Gilson, and Canyon Mountains; also the massive Pahvant Range. The Sevier Desert contains the course of the Sevier River in a circuitous manner. It flows to Sevier Lake in the extreme southwest Sevier Desert. The Sevier River enters the east desert flowing west, immediately turning southwest, then west, to enter the north of Sevier Lake, which is mostly south-southwest trending. The southeast section of the desert contains the Black Rock Desert volcanic field, with the notable Pahvant Butte, a formation from the time of Lake Bonneville. The volcanic field region is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilson Mountains
The Gilson Mountains are an longUtah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 34-35. almost circular, small mountain range adjacent the north terminus of the Canyon Mountains, (due-north trendline), located in far eastern Juab County, Utah, Juab County, Utah, United States. Description The Gilson Mountains are an ovoid, or elliptical shaped range, about long, trending south-southwest by north-northeast. It contains a central massif with Champlin Peak; two ridgelines trend from the center to the southwest. From Champlin Peak in the range center, Broad Canyon lies between the two ridges. To the northwest another major canyon abuts the center ridgeline, Long Canyon. Another ridgeline is formed off the center peak going northeast. Unimproved Gilson Road accesses the canyon on its north, and traverses to an area just northeast of Champlin Peak. The highpoint of the range is Champlin Peak, at . The mountain range is separated from the Canyon Mountains by the Sevier River and its narrow rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pavant Butte
Pahvant Butte (also Pavant Butte) is a butte formed by a dormant volcano in the west-central portion of Utah, United States. Description The butte, sometimes called "Sugarloaf Mountain" by locals, is located in the Sevier Desert in the Pahvant Valley south of Delta and five miles east of Clear Lake and the Clear Lake Wildlife Management Area. The butte has two peaks. The north peak has an elevation of and the south peak reaches . The peaks are about 1000 feet above the surrounding valley floor. The butte is about in diameter at the base. It formed in an active area of volcanism on top of pahoehoe and aa lavas. Originally a subaqueous volcano, it erupted out of the floor of Lake Bonneville approximately 15,500 years ago. Unusual Structure Along the southeast rim of the inner depression of the volcano is an unfinished structure consisting of a concrete building embedded in the hill surrounded by two rings of concrete obelisks. The structure was apparently begun by a man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cedar Valley (Iron County, Utah)
The Cedar Valley of Iron County, Utah, United States is a long valley located in the southeast of the county, against the Hurricane Cliffs which border the Cedar Mountains and the Markagunt Plateau. Cedar Valley borders the southeast of the Escalante Desert, at its north and northwest. Cedar City, Utah lies in the valley's center and east, at the foothills of the Hurricane Cliffs. Description Cedar Valley is northeast trending. It narrows in the southwest, between mountain ranges; in this southwest section, the Harmony Mountains are west, and the Hurricane Cliffs are east, bordering the Kolob Terrace. The valley is mostly about wide, between mountains, or ranges, or the Hurricane Cliffs, to the east, which is a 75-mi long landform, from Hurricane, Utah at its southwest end. The valley's north and northwest terminus merges into the Mud Spring Wash–Rush Lake region at the southwest of the Black Mountains (Utah), (and the southeast perimeter of the Escalante Desert); ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Escalante Valley
Escalante may refer to: People *Amat Escalante (born 1979), Mexican filmmaker *Bernardino de Escalante (born 1537), 16th-century Spanish writer, author of one of the first European books on China *Enrique Escalante (born 1984), Puerto Rican volleyball player *Francis García Escalante, Mexican transvestite who has become a famous actor *Gonzalo Escalante (born 1993), Argentine footballer *Jaime Escalante (1930–2010), Bolivian former mathematics teacher *Joe Escalante (born 1963), American musician *Jorge Volpi (born 1968), Mexican writer *José Escalante (born 1995), Honduran footballer *Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, Spanish padre and explorer in North America Places United States *''The Escalante'', a hotel in Ash Fork, Arizona *Escalante, Utah *Escalante Butte, of Eastern Grand Canyon *Escalante Desert, Utah *Escalante River, Utah *Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, Utah **Escalante National Monument, Utah Elsewhere *Escalante Department, an administrative distri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Range
The House Range is a north-south trending mountain range in Millard County, of west-central Utah. The House Range was named in 1859 by James H. Simpson. It was named by Simpson because "...of its well-defined stratification and the resemblance of portions of its outline to domes, minarets, houses, and other structures." Geography The House Range is bounded by Tule Valley to the west, Whirlwind Valley and Sevier Desert to the east, and trends with the Fish Springs Range to the north. The range has three notable passes: Skull Rock Pass (which US Highway 6/US Highway 50 travels through), Marjum Canyon (which the old US Highway 6 travels through), and Sand Pass (which the Weiss Highway passes through). The highest point in the House Range is Swasey Peak, at . Other notable peaks include Notch Peak, a frequent climbing and base-jumping hotspot, and the very square Tatow Knob. It is also known for one of the tallest limestone cliffs in the world, Notch Peak. Geology The g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fumarole Butte
Fumarole Butte is a shield volcano in central Juab County, Utah, Juab County, Utah, United States. Built during the Quaternary period, it is composed of basaltic andesite. It stands in height and has a diameter of . Under the volcano lies Crater Bench, the result of an eruption of basaltic andesite. To the east of the volcano are a series of hot springs, known as Baker Hot Springs. Background Fumarole Butte is located in the area once dominated by Lake Bonneville, a massive body of water nearly in area. The lake was created more than 800,000 years ago by extensive precipitation and glacier melting, and has dried up and re-emerged at least 28 times since. The cycles have been matched almost exactly to periods of glaciation by drilling and Stratigraphy, stratigraphic studies. Description Fumarole Butte lies north of the Sevier Desert. It is located in the scoria-rich valley of a basaltic lava field, on top of Tertiary-aged structures of Rhyolite, rhyolitic lava. Made of red an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drum Mountains
The Drum Mountains or Detroit Mountains are a desert range in Juab and Millard counties of western Utah. They lie within the Basin and Range Province, which is a series of generally north-south trending mountain ranges and valleys (or basins) extending from central Utah to eastern California, and from southern Idaho into Sonora, Mexico. Geology During the Cambrian period this area was underwater, which produced the marine sediments (limestones and shales) seen today in outcrop. The formations from this time are generally deeper water deposits (ramp-to-basin and outer-shelf). The Drum Mountains are complete (meaning there are no missing gaps in time) and are generally undisturbed. This is the reason why the beginning of the Drumian stage of the geologic time scale The geologic time scale, or geological time scale, (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Range
The Thomas Range is a mountain range of north central Juab County of western Utah, United States. Topaz Mountain is in the southern part of the range and Spor Mountain lies to the southwest.''Utah Atlas & Gazeteer,'' DeLorme, 9th ed., 2014, pp. 30-1 References External links Spor Mountain beryllium mines article at NASA Earth Observatory, July 16, 2021 Slides of the Fluorspar, Beryllium, and Uranium Deposits at Spor Mountain, Utah by David A. Lindsey USGS The United States Geological Survey (USGS), formerly simply known as the Geological Survey, is a scientific agency of the United States government. The scientists of the USGS study the landscape of the United States, its natural resources, a ... Mountain ranges of Utah Mountain ranges of Juab County, Utah {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dugway Valley
Dugway may refer to: *Dugway Proving Ground, a United States military weapons testing range in Utah *Dugway, Utah Dugway is a census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Tooele County, Utah, United States. The population was 2,016, at the 2000 census, a modest increase over the 1990 figure of 1,761. The town is located inside the United States Army's larg ..., a census-designated place near the Dugway Proving Grounds * Dugway Brook Watershed, a drainage basin in Cleveland, Ohio {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dugway Range
The Dugway Range is a 13-mile (21 km) longUtah DeLorme Atlas & Gazetteer, pp. 23, 31. mountain range located in central-south Tooele County, Utah, on the Juab County north border. The Dugway Range extends northwesterly into the south of the Great Salt Lake Desert, the region at the west and southwest of the Great Salt Lake, about three times its area, a region of a flat white, salt flat, flat alluvial plains, and some alluvial mountain range pediments. It is the location of the Bonneville Salt Flats. The long Granite Mountain lies Utah DeLorme Atlas, p. 23. north of the range; the mountain is a traveler's landmark with landscape sketches made in the 1800s (1859). Description The Dugway Range is about long, with a spur on the south terminus. The spur extends southwest into the Great Salt Lake Desert. The spur, Dugway Ridge, is about long, south-southwest trending mostly, and ends at Pyramid Peak, . The highpoint of the range is Castle Mountain (Utah), ), near the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Language
Spanish ( or , Castilian) is a Romance languages, Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from colloquial Latin spoken on the Iberian peninsula. Today, it is a world language, global language with more than 500 million native speakers, mainly in the Americas and Spain. Spanish is the official language of List of countries where Spanish is an official language, 20 countries. It is the world's list of languages by number of native speakers, second-most spoken native language after Mandarin Chinese; the world's list of languages by total number of speakers, fourth-most spoken language overall after English language, English, Mandarin Chinese, and Hindustani language, Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu); and the world's most widely spoken Romance languages, Romance language. The largest population of native speakers is in Mexico. Spanish is part of the Iberian Romance languages, Ibero-Romance group of languages, which evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Sahara Recreation Area
The Little Sahara Recreation Area is a large area of sand dunes, hills and sagebrush flats located in the northeast corner of the Sevier Desert in Juab County in the west central part of Utah, United States. Description Threcreation areais managed by the Bureau of Land Management of the United States Department of the Interior. A portion of the northwest corner of the facility has been designated as The Rockwell Natural Area and is off limits to vehicles to preserve and shelter desert plants and animals. Although the entire recreation area is located within Juab County, the dune field (which covers an area of ), extends southwest into Millard County, nearly as far as the city of Delta. Geology The Little Sahara sand dunes are remnants of a large river delta formed by the Sevier River from about 12,500 to 20,000 years ago. The river emptied into ancient Lake Bonneville near the present day mouth of Leamington Canyon. After Lake Bonneville receded, winds transported the sand f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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