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These are the Yavapai province (1800–1700 Mya), the Mazatzal province (1700–1650 Mya), the Granite-Rhyolite province (1500–1300 Mya), and the Llano-Grenville province (1300–1000 Mya). Each is interpreted as juvenile crust of an island arc, together with smaller amounts of reworked older crust, that accreted to Laurentia in an orogenic ...
Jerome State Historic Park is a state park of Arizona, US, featuring the Douglas Mansion, built in 1916 by a family of influential mining entrepreneurs in Jerome, Arizona, a mining region in the northeast of the Black Hills, east Yavapai County. A museum is located in the old Douglas Mansion.
The Yavapai Supergroup is a Paleoproterozoic supergroup of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rock strata, partially exposed in Arizona, US. The corresponding chronostratigraphic unit is the Yavapai Series , which locally defines an interval of geologic time. [ 1 ]
Tired of heading to the same old, familiar spots for family vacations? Here are 24 bucket-list spots you must go to before the kids leave home.
The Yavapai Geology Museum include three-dimensional models, photographs, and exhibits which allow park visitors to see and understand the complicated geologic story of the area. The museum building, the historic Yavapai Observation Station (built 1928), located one mile (1.6 km) east of Market Plaza, features expansive canyon views.
This model is supported by isotopic evidence and by radiometric dates suggesting arc volcanism had ceased in the Yavapai island arc 20 million years before it accreted to the Wyoming plate. [4] The collision of the Yavapai arcs with the Wyoming craton began with in a mountain-building event from 1780 to 1750 Ma called the Medicine Bow orogeny. [5]
Location of Yavapai County in Arizona. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Yavapai County, Arizona. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The first known settlements in the Bradshaws were a group of Yavapai people, called the Kwevkapaya who built forts and mined copper from around AD 1100 to 1600. [2] They called the mountains Wi:kañacha, meaning "rough, black range of rocks" [3]