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The Black Rock Desert Wilderness is a U S Wilderness Area in Nevada under the Bureau of Land Management.It is located in the east arm of the Black Rock Desert playa east of the Black Rock Range and west of the Jackson Mountains.
Detail from Gerardus Mercator's map of the Arctic (c. 1620 edition), showing the Rupes Nigra at the North Pole ('POLVS ARCTICVS'), surrounded by four large islands. The Rupes Nigra ("Black Rock"), a phantom island , was believed to be a black rock located at the Magnetic North Pole or at the geographic North Pole itself.
southern Black Rock Range. The Black Rock Range is a mountain range in northwestern Nevada. [1] It is named for Black Rock Point, which is located at the southern end of the range.
The Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the Great Basin shrub steppe ecoregion) of lava beds and playa, or alkali flats, situated in the Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of Reno, Nevada, that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic ...
The Black Rock Gorge, on the Allt Graad, viewed from above. Black Rock Gorge is a deep and narrow cleft in Old Red Sandstone conglomerate through which the Allt Graad (also known as the 'River Glass') flows at Evanton in Easter Ross, Scotland.
The waters around Blackrock Island are noted for large ocean swells and waves, [5] as evidenced by the difficulties faced in relieving the lighthouse keepers and with Rescue 116 helicopter wreckage recovery in 2017. [6] Water depths descend to 40 m within a kilometre of the island, with depths of 60 m and lower more typical towards Achill ...
One of the three full ocean depth rated landers used by the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre. To resolve this debate, the Diamantina fracture zone was surveyed by the Five Deeps Expedition in March 2019 by the Deep Submersible Support Vessel DSSV Pressure Drop , equipped with a full-ocean depth Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder ...
The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project, which aims to motivate a number of collaborators to create a full map of the ocean floor, was launched in 2016. [5] There are four Seabed 2030 centres, which coordinate mapping activities in different regions, gather and compile the bathymetric information, and partner with existing mapping ...