Black Kaweah is a mountain of the

Kaweah Peaks Ridge Kaweah Peaks Ridge is a spur of the Great Western Divide, a sub-range of California's Sierra Nevada. The ridge is located in Sequoia National Park and is composed of mostly rugged and loose metamorphic rock. Named mountains There are severa ...

of the

California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the m ...

's Sierra Nevada, in

Sequoia National Park Sequoia National Park is an American national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California. The park was established on September 25, 1890, and today protects of forested mountainous terrain. Encompassing a vertical relief ...

. The peak has a local magnetic disturbance that has caused compasses in the vicinity to vary by up to eight degrees.

Fulgurite Fulgurites (), commonly known as "fossilized lightning", are natural tubes, clumps, or masses of sintered, vitrified, and/or fused soil, sand, rock, organic debris and other sediments that sometimes form when lightning discharges into ground. ...

s can be found on the peak.

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* Mountains of Sequoia National Park Mountains of Tulare County, California Mountains of Northern California {{TulareCountyCA-geo-stub