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The topographic isolation of a summit is the minimum horizontal distance to a point of equal elevation, representing a radius of dominance in which the peak is the highest point. It can be calculated for small hills and islands as well as for major mountain peaks and can even be calculated for submarine summits.
In the United States, only Denali exceeds 4000 kilometers (2485 miles) of topographic isolation. 3 summits exceed 2000 kilometers (1243 miles), 8 exceed 1000 kilometers (621.4 miles), 13 exceed 500 kilometers (310.7 miles), 47 exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), 113 exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles), and 214 major summits exceed 50 ...
List of mountain peaks of California; Mountain peaks of Canada; List of the major 100-kilometre summits of Canada; List of the most isolated major summits of Canada; List of mountain peaks of the Caribbean; List of mountain peaks of Central America; Table of the most isolated major summits of Colorado; List of mountain peaks of Colorado
Contrast between topographic isolation and prominence. In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling it but containing no higher summit within it.
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills arranged in a line and connected by high ground. A mountain system or mountain belt is a group of mountain ranges with similarity in form, structure, and alignment that have arisen from the same cause, usually an orogeny . [ 1 ]
The topographic isolation (or radius of dominance) of a summit measures how far the summit lies from its nearest point of equal elevation. [ 4 ] Twelve major summits of Canada exceed 500 kilometers (310.7 miles) of topographic isolation, 31 exceed 200 kilometers (124.3 miles), 50 exceed 100 kilometers (62.14 miles) , and 92 major summits exceed ...
The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: The topographic elevation of a summit measures the height of the summit above a geodetic sea level . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The first table below ranks the 30 highest major summits of New Mexico by elevation.
Kings Peak (at right) is the highest summit of the Uinta Mountains, the U.S. State of Utah, and the Western Rocky Mountains. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Utah. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways: