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Convict Lake (Mono: Wit-sa-nap) is a lake located in Mono County, California, United States, situated in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada. It is known for its turquoise-blue water, the dramatic mountains (including Mount Morrison ) that surround it, the trout fishing it affords, and its unusual history.
Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL; ... Don Graham, Set 72157650938105414, ID 30501371946, Original title Convict Lake, Sierra Nevada Range, CA 9 ...
Lake Tahoe is the second deepest lake in the U.S. In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline.It occupies 376 square miles (970 km 2) in the southeast corner of the state, but because it is shallow it only holds about 7.5 million acre⋅ft (2.4 trillion US gal; 9.3 trillion L) of water. [2]
Morrison centered, with Mt. Baldwin behind, left. Highly tilted and faulted metasedimentary rocks are exposed on Mount Morrison. Formations include the Ordovician Convict Lake Formation (argillite and siliceous hornfels and slate), the Lower Devonian to Silurian Aspen Meadow Formation (siliceous and calc-silicate hornfels), the Middle Devonian Mount Morrison Sandstone (calcareous quartz ...
Some of the injured were hospitalised at Mammoth Lakes Hospital. The shocks which occurred on Memorial Day forced leisure activities in the area to cease. Visitors of Mammoth Lakes also began evacuating the town causing a congestion along the main road. At Convict Lake, over 150 visitors across 92 campsites fled the area. Some trails in the ...
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Laurel Mountain is a peak in Mono County, California.It lies in the Sherwin Range of the Sierra Nevada and is in the Inyo National Forest and the John Muir Wilderness.It reaches a height of 11,818 feet (3,602 m) [1] and is largely composed of metamorphic rock caused by contact with an intruding pluton in the late Cretaceous.