Salome Creek is a watercourse in the
Salome Wilderness
The Salome Wilderness of Tonto National Forest is a protected area in the rim country of the southwestern US. The Salome Wilderness lies within the Sierra Ancha mountain range in Gila County, Arizona.
Ecology
Prominent perennial streams within t ...
in central
Arizona
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, United States.
Natural history
The oldest exposed rock forms in the watershed are
graphic granite
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, which dates to 1400 million years before present. The watershed holds a diverse flora and fauna. Within this part of the
Sierra Ancha
The Sierra Ancha ("broad range" in Spanish, in Western Apache: Dził Nteel - "Wide Flat Mountain") is a mountain range in Gila County, in central Arizona. It lies between Roosevelt Lake to the south, the Tonto Basin to the west, Cherry Creek to ...
range there are notable
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s of
Coastal woodfern, ''
Dryopteris arguta
''Dryopteris arguta'', with the common name coastal woodfern, is a species of wood fern. It is native to the west coast and western interior mountain ranges of North America, from British Columbia, throughout California, and into Arizona.
It gr ...
'';
[C. Michael Hogan. 2008] this fern is otherwise common in areas nearer the Pacific coast.
See also
*
Workman Creek
References
:;Citations
* Ivo Lucchitta. 2001. ''Hiking Arizona's Geology'', Published by The Mountaineers Books,
* Tom Dollar and Jerry Sieve. 1999. ''Guide to Arizona's Wilderness Areas'', Big Earth Publishing,
* C. Michael Hogan. 2008
''Coastal Woodfern (Dryopteris arguta)'', GlobalTwitcher, ed. N. Stromberg
External links
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Rivers of Gila County, Arizona
Rivers of Arizona