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The Round Top Geologic Area has more than 3,000 acres (12 km 2) within the wilderness and encompasses a variety of geological areas, including exposed granodiorite, lava flows, dikes, glacial moraines and cirques. The landform known as Elephants Back is a rounded mass of solidified lava.
Round Top is a 10,381-foot (3,164 m) mountain located on the Sierra crest in Alpine County, California, United States. [3] Its summit is the highest point in Eldorado National Forest and the Mokelumne Wilderness. [1] The mountain lies just south of Carson Pass.
This landmark of Hope Valley is set in the Mokelumne Wilderness of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. The summit is situated one mile south of Carson Pass and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) northeast of line parent Round Top. Elephants Back is a lava dome which was created in association with the now-inactive volcanic vent that is Round Top. [6]
The Tehachapi Mountains and Tehachapi Pass in 1869. The mountain pass acts as a venturi effect to air moving between ocean and desert, increasing wind speed. [5]The area east and south of the pass is home to the Tehachapi Pass Wind Farm, and to the west is Alta Wind Energy Center, some of California's larger wind farms.
Round Top Island (Tasmania), Australia Round Top Island National Park; Round Top (Alpine County, California), the highest peak in the Mokelumne Wilderness Round Top (Contra Costa County, California), an extinct volcano in the Berkeley Hills, just east of Oakland
Round Top Road goes from the Sibley visitor center to the peak of Round Top. CLOSED; Round Top Loop Trail circles Round Top's peak. Volcanic Trail, once a quarry haul road, contains most of the stops on the self-guided volcanic tour. Quarry Trail connects the middle of Volcanic Trail to a point lower down on Quarry Road.
Tehachapi (/ t ə ˈ h æ tʃ ə p i / ⓘ; Kawaiisu: Tihachipia, meaning "hard climb") [7] [8] is a city in Kern County, California, United States, in the Tehachapi Mountains, at an elevation of 3,970 feet (1,210 m), [4] between the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert.
Mokelumne Peak has the largest body of metamorphic rock in the region, called the Mokelumne Peak roof pendant, extending over an area of 15 square miles (39 km 2).These rocks were originally Jurassic or Cretaceous age, but were metamorphosed when plutons of the Sierra Nevada batholith intruded in the Cretaceous.