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The granite is part of a batholith dated 14 m.y.a locally known as Camelback Granite. It extends southward from Black Mountain and is expressed in outcrops in the McDowell Mountains, the Union Hills, and Camelback Mountain. Texturally, the granite varies from a large crystal with phenocrysts of up to 2.5 cm., to a finer grained crystal texture ...
Black Mountain (Maricopa County, Arizona) Maricopa: 3398 ft (1036 m) Dome Mountain (Maricopa)† Maricopa: 3381 ft (1031 m) Bobcat Ridge: Pima: 3380 ft (1030 m) Arch Mountain: Mohave: 3376 ft (1029 m) Tillotson Peak: Pima: 3374 ft (1028 m) Diablo Mountains High Point: Pima: 3372 ft (1027 m) Picacho Peak: Pinal: 3370 ft (1027 m) Black Top Mesa ...
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.
Black Mountain is a lava capped mesa in Pima County, Arizona, that rises 1,000 feet above its base to an altitude of 3,700 feet (1,128 m). It is a northeast trending ridge, 5,600 feet in length, located along Mission Road nine miles southwest of Tucson .
The Granite Mountains of Arizona is a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. It is located in extreme western Pima County , Arizona, bordering southeast Yuma County . The Granite Mountains are an 18-mile (29 km) long range, trending mostly northwest-southeast; the north end of the range turns more northerly and aligns with ...
Granite Mountain is composed of Paleoproterozoic biotite granodiorite to granite that is known by geologist as the Mint Wash Granodiorite. [5] [6] The Mint Wash Granodiorite consists of medium to coarse-grained, weakly to strongly porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of gray to pink potassium feldspar up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in length and as much as eight percent biotite that is less than 8 mm (0. ...
Granite Mountains (Arizona)–Pima County–see also: Granite Mountain (Arizona)-(Yavapai County) a separate "Granite Mountain" is in s. La Paz County; Granite Wash Mountains–La Paz County; Grayback Mountains–Yavapai County; Growler Mountains–Pima County; Guadalupe Mountains (Hidalgo County)–Hidalgo County, NM - (Cochise County, AZ ...
Black Mesa (also called Big Mountain) is an upland mountainous mesa of Arizona, north-trending in Navajo County, west and southeast-trending in Apache County.In Navajo it is called Dziłíjiin ('Black Mountain') and during Mexican rule of Arizona it was called Mesa de las Vacas (Spanish for 'mesa of the cows'). [1]