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Some small cinder cones formed as recently as the Pleistocene and the Nye County Lunar Crater volcanic field was active only 15,000 years ago. In Nevada's recent geologic past, tectonic changes have created normal faults and creating the basin and range horst and graben terrain. Thinning of the upper crust caused deeper, highly metamorphosed ...
Geological map of the Northern Snake Range. The Northern Snake Range metamorphic core complex is a gently domed structure that forms the northern part of the Snake Range in Nevada.
The Lunar Crater volcanic field is located in Nye County, [9] in the central part [10] of the state of Nevada. [3] The field lies almost north from Rachel, [11] 62 miles (100 km) east-northeast from Tonopah [12] and 250 miles (400 km) north of Las Vegas. [13]
The Glen Canyon Group is a geologic group of formations that is spread across the U.S. states of Nevada, Utah, northern Arizona, north west New Mexico and western Colorado. It is called the Glen Canyon Sandstone in the Green River Basin of Colorado and Utah. [1] There are four formations within the group.
The watershed formed by the Banner Mountain has many geological formations. The rock types recorded are mafic rocks such as gabbro, serpentine rocks, an ultramafic rocks and granitic rocks consisting of quartz monzonite, and metavolcanic rocks. Consequently, the soil formations of the watershed exhibit soil types derived from gabbro and serpentine.
This is a list of highest points in the U.S. state of Nevada, in alphabetical order by county. All elevations use the North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD88), the currently accepted vertical control datum for United States, Canada and Mexico. Elevations are from the National Geodetic Survey when available.
Geologic map of the Yucca Mountain region, Nye County, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Geologic Investigations Series I-2755. Denver, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey. "Google Maps satellite imagery" "Yucca Mountain". Sacred Land Film Project "A Western Shoshone Perspective on Yucca Mountain".
Las Vegas, Nevada's most populous city, has been the county seat since the county was created in 1909 from a portion of Lincoln County, Nevada. Before that, it was a part of Arizona Territory. Clark County attracts numerous tourists: An estimated 44 million people visited Clark County in 2014. [21]