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Mount Whitney is the highest mountain peak in the Sierra Nevada, the State of California, and the contiguous United States. The following list comprises the mountain ranges of U.S. State of California designated by the United States Board on Geographic Names and cataloged in the Geographic Names Information System .
The Mountain ranges of Northern California. For convenience, all mountain ranges in Northern California should be included in this category. This includes all the mountain ranges that can also be found in the subcategories.
Category: Mountain ranges of the San Francisco Bay Area — subregion of Northern California; see San Francisco Bay Area. The main article for this category is List of mountain ranges of California; Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain ranges of California; See also category Hills of California
The Mountain ranges located in the Southern California Area Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountain ranges of Southern California . For convenience, all mountain ranges in Southern California should be included in this category.
Of the most prominent summits of California, only Mount Whitney exceeds 3000 meters (9843 feet) of topographic prominence. Five peaks exceed 2000 meters (6562 feet), nine peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet), and 35 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.
Category: Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area — subregion of Northern California; see San Francisco Bay Area. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mountains of California See also categories Hills of California , Mountain ranges of California
in the California Coast Ranges, geologic province of California See also: Category:Mountains of the San Francisco Bay Area For convenience, all mountain ranges in the San Francisco Bay Area should be included in this category.
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...