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Great Basin National Park is a national park of the United States located in White Pine County in east-central Nevada, near the Utah border, established in 1986. The park is most commonly entered by way of Nevada State Route 488 , which is connected to U.S. Routes 6 and 50 by Nevada State Route 487 via the small town of Baker , the closest ...
The peak is located in Great Basin National Park and 6.84 miles (11.01 km) south of Wheeler Peak. [3] It ranks as the seventh-highest peak in the park and 17th-highest in Nevada. [ 1 ] Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 3,600 feet (1,097 meters) above Lincoln Canyon in 1.35 miles (2.17 km) and over 5,600 feet (1,707 meters ...
The Great Basin (Spanish: Gran Cuenca) is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds, those with no outlets to the ocean, in North America.It spans nearly all of Nevada, much of Utah, and portions of California, Idaho, Oregon, Wyoming, and Baja California.
Great Basin National Park — in White Pine County, within the Great Basin region, in eastern Nevada. Preserving Great Basin Desert xeric habitats, to alpine flora habitats that include ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine ( Pinus longaeva ) .
Wheeler Peak, elevation 13,065 feet (3,982 m), in Great Basin National Park. Timber Creek in the Schell Creek Range. White Pine County is a largely rural, mountain county along the central eastern boundary of the U.S. state of Nevada. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,080. [1] Its county seat is Ely. [2]
The Wheeler Peak Glacier is a vestige of the last glacial maximum, when the climate was as much as 8 degrees cooler than it is today. During that time period, glaciers moved down to as low as 9,200 feet (2,800 m), but subsequent warming during the Holocene Epoch (starting 10,000 years ago) caused widespread melting of both continental glaciers ...
The Great Basin Desert is part of the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch Range.The desert is a geographical region that largely overlaps the Great Basin shrub steppe defined by the World Wildlife Fund, and the Central Basin and Range ecoregion defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and United States Geological Survey.
The U.S. climate is temperate in most areas, tropical in Hawaii and southern Florida, polar in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains west of the 100th meridian, Mediterranean in coastal California and arid in the Great Basin. Its comparatively generous climate contributed (in part) to the country's rise as a world power, with infrequent severe ...