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The first table below ranks the 20 highest summits of Missouri by elevation. The topographic prominence of a summit is a measure of how high the summit rises above its surroundings. The second table below ranks the 20 most prominent summits of Missouri.
Between the two zones is the Missouri Gravity Low, or MGL, a mass of low density granite including the Missouri batholith up to 370 miles long and 60 miles wide, identified in gravity surveys. Igneous activity ended around 1.3 billion years ago, with the intrusion of numerous dikes and sills into newly crystallized rhyolite and granite.
Missouri's highest recorded temperature is 118 °F (48 °C) at Warsaw and Union on July 14, 1954, while the lowest recorded temperature is −40 °F (−40 °C) also at Warsaw on February 13, 1905. Located in Tornado Alley , Missouri also receives extreme weather in the form of severe thunderstorms and tornadoes.
Geologic map of the St. Francois Mountain region. The St. Francois Mountains were formed by volcanic and intrusive activity 1.485 billion (1.485 x 10 9) years ago. [6] By comparison, the Appalachians started forming about 460 million years ago, and the Rockies a mere 140 million years ago.
Hughes Mountain and the Hughes Mountain State Natural Area are located in southern Washington County, Missouri (Sections 28 and 33, T36N R3E) [1] just south of the Big River and Highway M on Cedar Creek Road in the St. Francois Mountains range of The Ozarks. The mountain reaches an elevation of just over 1,200 feet, [2] rising 430 feet above ...
Taum Sauk Mountain / ˈ t ɔː m ˈ s ɔː k / [3] in the Saint Francois Mountains is the highest natural point in the U.S. state of Missouri at 1,772 feet (540 m). [4] The topography of Taum Sauk is that of an elongated ridge with a NNW-SSE orientation rather than a peak.
Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park is a public recreation area covering 8,781 acres (3,554 ha) on the East Fork Black River in Reynolds County, Missouri.The state park is jointly administered with adjoining Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, and together the two parks cover more than sixteen thousand acres in the St. Francois Mountains region of the Missouri Ozarks.
The Rockpile Mountain Wilderness is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Missouri in Mark Twain National Forest. It takes its name from an ancient circle of granite rock, piled by some earlier man on top of the mountain. [1] The namesake rock pile most likely was an Indian cairn. [2]