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Black Mountains (Yavapai County)
Black Mountains may refer to: Asia * Black Mountains (Bhutan) * Kirana Hills, Pakistan Europe * Black Mountain (range), Wales * Black Mountains (Rhön), Germany * Black Mountains, Wales and England * Montagne Noire, in central southern France * Montagnes Noires, in Brittany, France * Svartfjella, Svalbard, Norway North America * Black Mountains (Arizona) * Black Mountains (Yavapai County, Arizona), in the Poachie Range * Black Mountains (California) * Black Mountains (Nevada) * Black Mountains (North Carolina) * Black Mountains (Utah) The Black Mountains is a long mountain range in northeastern Iron County and southeastern Beaver County in southwestern Utah, United States. The range borders the northeast portion of the Escalante Desert, and the range's southeast flank trends ... See also * Black Hill (other) * Black Hills (other) * Black Mountain (other) * Black Rock (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (Bhutan)
The Black Mountains is a mountain range in central Bhutan, and is a sub−range of the Himalayan Range System. Locally the mountain range is known as Dungshing Gang which means the peaks of fir. Geography Durshingla peak, at an elevation of , is the range's highest point. National Park Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park protects a large area of the Black Mountains and the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests ecoregion within them. It was originally named Black Mountains National Park. Alpine lakes The black mountains range is home to some of the beautiful alpine lakes which are the source of some rivers. The lakes are: *Gesatsho *Tshonamtsho *Broksatsho *Mendatsho *Peptatsho *Bekhotsho *Tshobobzhao *Sertsho *Yutsho Socio-cultural significance Deity Jowo Dungshing Dungshing Go See also *Mountains of Bhutan The mountains of Bhutan are some of the most prominent natural geographic features of the kingdom. Located on the southern end of the Eastern Himalaya, Bhutan has one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (Yavapai County, Arizona)
Black Mountains may refer to: Asia * Black Mountains (Bhutan) * Kirana Hills, Pakistan Europe * Black Mountain (range), Wales * Black Mountains (Rhön), Germany * Black Mountains, Wales and England * Montagne Noire, in central southern France * Montagnes Noires, in Brittany, France * Svartfjella, Svalbard, Norway North America * Black Mountains (Arizona) * Black Mountains (Yavapai County, Arizona), in the Poachie Range * Black Mountains (California) * Black Mountains (Nevada) * Black Mountains (North Carolina) * Black Mountains (Utah) The Black Mountains is a long mountain range in northeastern Iron County and southeastern Beaver County in southwestern Utah, United States. The range borders the northeast portion of the Escalante Desert, and the range's southeast flank trends ... See also * Black Hill (other) * Black Hills (other) * Black Mountain (other) * Black Rock (other) {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Hills (other)
Black Hills may refer to: Places * Black Hills in South Dakota and Wyoming ** Black Hills Airport in Spearfish, South Dakota ** Black Hills Gold Rush in South Dakota from 1874 to 1877 ** Black Hills National Forest in South Dakota and Wyoming ** Black Hills Playhouse, a theater in South Dakota ** Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota * In California: ** Black Hills (Contra Costa County) ** Black Hills (Imperial County) ** Black Hills (Kern County) ** Black Hills (Riverside County) ** Black Hills (San Bernardino County) * In Arizona ** Black Hills (Greenlee County) ** Black Hills (Yavapai County) * Black Hills (Oregon) * Black Hills (Washington) * Black Hills, Tasmania, a locality in Australia Other * ''Black Hills'' (1929 film), a silent American film directed by Norman Dawn * ''Black Hills'' (1947 film), an American western film directed by Ray Taylor * Black Hills Ammunition * "Black Hills", a song by Scale the Summit from the album '' The Collective'' * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Hill (other)
Black Hill may refer to: Australia * Black Hill, Ballarat, an area of Ballarat, Victoria * Black Hill Conservation Park, near Adelaide * Black Hill, South Australia, formerly known as Friedensthal in South Australia * Black Hill, New South Wales, near Newcastle * Black Hill, Victoria, a locality near Ballarat Hong Kong * Black Hill, Hong Kong, a hill in Hong Kong India * Kalo Dungar also known as Black Hill in Kutch, India Ireland * Black Hill (Wicklow Mountains), 602 m peak in County Wicklow United Kingdom England * Black Hill (Northwest Dartmoor) (584m), a hill in northwestern Dartmoor * Black Hill (East Dartmoor) (412m), a hill on the eastern edge of Dartmoor * Black Hill (East Sussex) (223 m), second highest point in East Sussex * Black Hill (Herefordshire) (640m), a mountain near Craswall in the Black Mountains * Black Hill (Peak District) (582m), a Marilyn and the highest point in West Yorkshire * Black Hill (Quantocks) (358m), a prominent high point in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (Utah)
The Black Mountains is a long mountain range in northeastern Iron County and southeastern Beaver County in southwestern Utah, United States. The range borders the northeast portion of the Escalante Desert, and the range's southeast flank trends with the Hurricane Cliffs and Parowan Valley. In the south section, of a southwest trending ridgeline, is the Parowan Gap Petroglyphs Site. At the terminus of the ridgeline, the pass at the Summit, Utah region, there is the site of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail as it crossed into the northeast of Cedar Valley, the site of Cedar City. Interstate 15 (I-15) traverses the southeast region of the range from Cedar City, to Greenville-Beaver. Description The Black Mountains have a complex shape. It has an east-west ridgeline at the north perimeter with the Beaver River in the west, and Minersville Reservoir in the center; the northeast foothills border the region of Beaver-Greenville, Utah. The highpoint of the range, Mahogany Kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (North Carolina)
The Black Mountains are a mountain range in western North Carolina, in the southeastern United States. They are part of the Blue Ridge Province of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. The Black Mountains are the highest mountains in the Eastern United States. The range takes its name from the dark appearance of the red spruce and Fraser fir trees that form a spruce-fir forest on the upper slopes which contrasts with the brown (during winter) or lighter green (during the growing season) appearance of the deciduous trees at lower elevations. The Eastern Continental Divide, which runs along the eastern Blue Ridge crest, intersects the southern tip of the Black Mountain range. The Black Mountains are home to Mount Mitchell State Park, which protects the range's highest summit and adjacent summits in the north-central section of the range. Much of the range is also protected by the Pisgah National Forest. The Blue Ridge Parkway passes along the range's southern section, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (Nevada)
The Black Mountains, a mid-Miocene formation, in Nevada are a series of rugged, arid rocky volcanic mountains ranging in elevations to 3310 ft. The range lies on the north shore of Lake Mead, at the southwest corner of the Overton Arm, about 25 mi south of Overton, Nevada. The Black Mountains are mostly within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area, with a small valley bordering north, the Bitter Spring Valley at the southeast of the arid Muddy Mountains Deep canyons and washes that flow southeast into the Overton Arm of Lake Mead cut into the mountain range. The range contains deposits of soft manganese oxides/hydroxides. History The Armijo Route of the Old Spanish National Historic Trail ran down the Virgin Valley-Overton Arm section of the valleys now occupied by Lake Mead. The trail descended the Colorado from the mouth of the Virgin River, avoided Boulder Canyon, at the southwest of the Black Mountains, where the range is separated from the Black Mountains in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (California)
The Black Mountains are a mountain range located in the southeastern part of Inyo County, California, within southeastern Death Valley National Park. Geography The Black Mountains are a southern range of the Amargosa Range System and lie in a generally north–south direction at their southwestern end. Their formation has been classified as the Amargosa Chaos. Lower Death Valley lies to the west & southwest of the Black Mountains section, with Greenwater Valley and the Greenwater Range to the northeast. The Black Mountains and Greenwater Range abut the Funeral Mountains on the north, also at the southern terminus of the Amargosa Range. The Amargosa River turns south-southwest, around the three sub-ranges, then northwest into Death Valley. The Owlshead Mountains are to the south across the Amargosa River and its steep descent into Death Valley. ;Features The range reaches an elevation of above sea level at Funeral Peak. Dante's View and Coffin Peak lie at the northern end o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poachie Range
The Poachie Range is a moderate length mountain range and massif in southeast Mohave County, Arizona, and the extreme southwest corner of Yavapai County; the range also abuts the northeast corner of La Paz County. The Poachie Range massif is bordered by the south-flowing Big Sandy River on its west, and the west-flowing Santa Maria River on its south; both rivers converge at the Poachie Range's southwest at Alamo Lake in Alamo Lake State Park. From Alamo Lake, the (short) Bill Williams River flows due west for 35 mi to meet the Colorado River. The Bill Williams River is the de facto border between the Mojave Desert north and northwest; the Sonoran Desert is south and southeast. Across the south-flowing Colorado River to the west, is the massif of the Whipple Mountains at the northeast of the Sonoran Desert subsection named the Colorado Desert of southern California and bordered by the Colorado River. The entire region south of the Poachie Range, and its two mountain rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Mountains (Arizona)
The Black Mountains of northwest Arizona are an extensive, mostly linear, north-south trending long mountain range. It forms the north-south border of southwest Mohave County as it borders the eastern shore of the south-flowing Colorado River from Hoover Dam. The northwest and part of the western areas of the range are located within the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. Three wilderness areas are within the range. The historic mining site of Oatman, 4 miles north of Boundary Cone, is nestled in the southern portion of the range between the Mount Nutt and Warm Springs wildernesses. Description The mountain range is generally 10-15 mi wide, narrower in the north, and west of the Detrital Valley northeast. The southern end of the range with the two wilderness areas is a larger block and the Warm Springs Wilderness is made of a mountain section called Black Mesa, separated from the north section by Sitgreaves Pass, on the route to Oatman, Arizona. The high point of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirana Hills
The Kirana Hills is a small and extensive rocky mountain range located in Rabwah and Sargodha, Pakistan. It is also a place of tourist attraction in Sargodha City. Locally known as "Black Mountains" due to its brownish landscape, its highest peak is about . Known for its extreme weather conditions, its maximum temperature reaches to in the summer while the minimum temperature recorded is as low as freezing point in the winter. Due to its rocky landscape and minerals, a volcanic and geophysical survey was conducted by the Geological Survey of Pakistan. Its environs are heavily infested with wild boars. Nuclear weapons tests Kirana-I was the assigned codename of the 24 subcritical ' cold tests' conducted by Pakistan from 1983–90. The Pakistan Army Corps of Engineers led the civil engineering of potential sites for the tests to be conducted. The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) carried out several tests of the feasibility of weapon designs; all tests were subcriti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
