Geology, Nevada
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- Aurora Crater — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Pleistocene basaltic crater in the Aurora–Bodie volcanic field, the late-stage vent that capped a long Miocene-to-Pleistocene eruptive history around the Aur…
- Basin & Range — Central Nevada — Geology · Central Nevada
Nevada's defining geology — crustal extension has stretched the state to roughly twice its original width, tilting giant fault blocks to create the parallel …
- Bowl of Fire — Geology · Clark County, NV
A closed basin of vivid red Aztec Sandstone outcrops and eroded knobs inside Lake Mead National Recreation Area, north of Callville Bay. Wave-cut and wind-sc…
- Carlin Canyon — Geology · Elko County, NV
Steep Humboldt River canyon west of Carlin where Paleozoic through Tertiary strata are exposed in road and railroad cuts. Historic corridor of the California…
- Chalk Mountain — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Pale, chalky summit in the West Gate country east of Fairview Peak—part of the light-toned carbonate and altered rock package that colors this stretch of US-…
- Clayton Valley Cinder Cone — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Pleistocene basalt scoria cone (~390,000 years old) rising about 85 m beside NV-265 in Clayton Valley north of Silver Peak. Loose cinders, volcanic bombs, an…
- Cuprite — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
World-famous hydrothermal alteration landscape south of Goldfield where late Miocene acid-sulfate systems painted the hills in bright clays, alunite, and iro…
- Devils Throat — Geology · Clark County, NV
Large collapse sinkhole in Gold Butte National Monument that opened in the early 1900s and has widened over time (now roughly 100–120 ft across and very deep…
- Easy Chair Crater — Geology · Nye County, NV
Prominent Quaternary cinder cone on the Lunar Crater Back Country Byway—named for its high-backed ‘easy chair’ silhouette. Part of the Lunar Crater volcanic …
- Emigrant Peak — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Isolated summit on the Rhyolite Ridge / Emigrant Peak map sheet north of the Silver Peak Range, a hard-rock desert highpoint above the Clayton Valley–Fish La…
- Fairview Peak Earthquake Faults — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Public BLM interpretive pullout and graded Earthquake Fault Road south of US-50 showcasing surface rupture from the December 16, 1954 Fairview Peak (M~7.1) a…
- Gemfield — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Pay-to-dig chalcedony field about four miles northwest of Goldfield on the US-95 corridor, marketed as one of the largest gemstone-quality chalcedony deposit…
- Hole in the Mountain (Lizzie's Window) — Geology · Elko County, NV
Natural arch known as Lizzie’s Window or Hole in the Mountain on a ridge of the East Humboldt Range just south of Hole in the Mountain Peak (about 11,300 fee…
- Lake Lahontan Shorelines — Geology · Washoe / Pershing County, NV
Wave-cut terraces and tufa towers mark the shorelines of ancient Lake Lahontan, which filled most of western Nevada during the last ice age — peaking ~13,000…
- Lexington Arch — Geology · White Pine County, NV
A rare limestone natural arch (possibly a former cave passage or natural bridge) standing high in Lexington Canyon on the remote south side of Great Basin Na…
- Lunar Crater Volcanic Field — Geology · Nye County, NV
Over 100 volcanic vents, cinder cones, and a pristine maar crater in central Nevada. NASA used Easy Chair Crater to train Apollo astronauts — the resemblance…
- Malpais Mesa — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
A dark volcanic mesa on the southwest fringe of the Goldfield district, gazetted by the Board on Geographic Names and long mapped in classic USGS Goldfield g…
- Mount Grant — Geology · Mineral County, NV
High summit of the Wassuk Range above Walker Lake—a steep fault-block massif with classic Basin-and-Range relief. Ridge and road approaches offer geology and…
- Pilot Cone — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Isolated volcanic cone rising above the Rawhide Hills / Koegel Hills north of Walker Lake country—a landmark cinder-and-boulder summit on the Pilot Cone 7.5′…
- Piper Peak — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
High, high-prominence summit of the Silver Peak Range above Fish Lake Valley—one of Esmeralda’s landmark desert peaks. Granitic and metamorphic uplands drop …
- Rainbow Gardens — Geology · Clark County, NV
BLM Area of Critical Environmental Concern east of Las Vegas between Frenchman Mountain and Lake Mead — gypsum badlands and multicolored Tertiary sedimentary…
- Redstone Picnic Area — Geology · Clark County, NV
NPS day-use stop on Lake Mead’s Northshore Road where bright Aztec Sandstone knobs rise from gray limestone country. A short Redstone Dune Loop (~0.5–1.1 mi)…
- Rhodes Salt Marsh — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Playas and salt flats of the historic Virginia Salt Marsh, mined from 1862 when camels hauled salt to Comstock mills—later a Carson & Colorado railroad stop …
- Ruby Mountains Core Complex — Geology · Elko County, NV
Textbook metamorphic core complex — Precambrian and Mesozoic rock domed upward as the Great Basin stretched, creating Nevada's most dramatic alpine terrain. …
- Soda Lake — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Young basalt maar (and sister Little Soda Lake) on the Carson Sink floor NW of Fallon — one of Nevada's clearest Holocene phreatomagmatic craters. USGS class…
- Table Mountain — Geology · Nye County, NV
Namesake high volcanic tableland (~10,000 ft average) at the core of the 92,600-acre Table Mountain Wilderness in the Monitor Range. One of the Great Basin's…
- Teels Marsh — Geology · Mineral County, NV
Broad alkaline playa and historic borax source in southwestern Mineral County, now part of the Marietta Wild Burro Management Area on BLM land. Late-19th-cen…
- Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument — Geology · Clark County, NV
NPS national monument protecting Ice Age groundwater-discharge deposits of the Las Vegas Formation in the Upper Las Vegas Wash. Mammoth, camel, horse, dire w…
- Upsal Hogback — Geology · Churchill County, NV
Young phreatomagmatic tuff cone and basalt ridge north of Fallon in the Lahontan Valley, part of the same late Quaternary volcanic family as Soda Lakes. Geol…
- Volcanic Hills — Geology · Esmeralda County, NV
Named volcanic range on the Fish Lake Valley side of Esmeralda County—dark hills and rhyolitic ground between the White Mountains front and the Silver Peak c…