Fairview Peak is a
summit
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topography, topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.
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in the
Clan Alpine Mountains of the
U.S. state of
Nevada
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.
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
Fairview is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada, in the United States of America.
History
Discovery of silver in the area in 1905 led to several claims and the creation of a boom town in 1906. Some of the first mining claims were bought by ...
takes its name from the nearby peak.
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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
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements. Large faults within Earth's crust result from the action of plate tectonic ...
motion on a normal fault resulted in the appearance of large fault scarps.
References
Mountains of Churchill County, Nevada
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