Basalt is a formerly populated place located in Mineral County, Nevada. Basalt was a station on the Carson and Colorado Railway. The Basalt Post Office...
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Washington, western Idaho, and part of northern Nevada. The basalt group includes the Steens and Picture Gorge basalt formations. During the middle to late Miocene...
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the southern portion of Mineral County, Nevada, United States. The route connects the former town of Basalt to the rest of Mineral County. A road has...
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Carson and Colorado Railway (redirect from Lux, Nevada)
Nevada (spur to Candelaria) Candelaria, Nevada (spur only) Basalt, Nevada Summit, Nevada (Mt. Montgomery) Queen, Nevada Benton, California Hammil Valley, California...
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Yellowstone hotspot (category Volcanism of Nevada)
million years ago, in the waning stage of the Steens flood basalt volcanism. The northwest Nevada calderas have diameters ranging from 15 to 26 km and deposited...
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existed in the U.S. state of Nevada since July 1, 1976. All active state-numbered highways in this list are maintained by the Nevada Department of Transportation...
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activity may extend into the Holocene. Its primary lavas are andesitic and basaltic flows, although it has also produced pyroclastic flows. Lahars are also...
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highways in Nevada. Between the California state line west of Montgomery Pass to Basalt, the highway was concurrently routed with SR 10. From Basalt to Coaldale...
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Devils Postpile National Monument (category Columnar basalts of the United States)
monument protects Devils Postpile, an unusual rock formation of columnar basalt, "all closely and perfectly fitted together like a vast mosaic." The monument...
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Babbitt Basalt Belleville Broken Hills Candelaria Eagleville Kinkaid Lucky Boy Marietta Montgomery Pass Omco Rand Rawhide Rhodes Sodaville Thorne Nevada portal...
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igneous provinces: the Paraná and Etendeka traps and the Columbia River Basalt Group. The latter is the most recent large igneous province, and also one...
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even glassy. Basalt is the most common extrusive igneous rock and forms lava flows, lava sheets and lava plateaus. Some kinds of basalt solidify to form...
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Little Devils Postpile (category Columnar basalts of the United States)
Little Devils Postpile is a columnar basalt rock formation in the Sierra Nevada, located within Yosemite National Park and eastern Tuolumne County, California...
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Burning Man (redirect from Black Rock City, Nevada)
Day. Since 1991, the event has been at Black Rock City in northwestern Nevada, a temporary city erected in the Black Rock Desert about 100 miles (160 km)...
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Route 95 (US 95) is a major U.S. highway traversing the U.S. state of Nevada from north to south directly through Las Vegas and providing connections...
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the vesicular basalt. The erosion found at Fossil Falls was formed by the youngest glacial runoff, called the Tioga, from the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range...
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within a shear zone, and may occur in sediments, andesites, trachytes and basalts. These bodies are often discordant to stratigraphy and are quite podiform...
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Potentilla basaltica (redirect from Basalt cinquefoil)
and basalt cinquefoil. It is endemic to a small area of the Modoc Plateau and Warner Mountains in northeastern California and northwestern Nevada. Potentilla...
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year old Southwest Nevada volcanic field. During the last 10 million years, volcanic activity shifted to bimodal volcanism with basalt lava flows alternating...
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calderas; West of Pine Forest Range, Nevada; 15.5 to 16.5 Ma. Yellowstone hotspot, Steens and Columbia River flood basalts, Pueblo, Steens, and Malheur Gorge-region...
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Sierra Nevada Mountains during the beginning of the Glacial Epoch. Wright strongly contested that the artifact originated below the 60 ft deep basalt layer...
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also briefly known as White Canyon, is a ghost town in Churchill County, Nevada and was founded in 1908 after gold and silver mine claims were located....
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Pah Rah Range (redirect from Olinghouse, Nevada)
The Pah Rah Range is a mountain range located in western Nevada in Washoe County just to the northeast of Reno. It is a hook shaped range with the main...
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Manhattan is an unincorporated town in Nye County, Nevada, located at the end of Nevada State Route 377, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Tonopah, the county...
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Opal (section Virgin Valley, Nevada)
being most commonly found with limonite, sandstone, rhyolite, marl, and basalt. The name opal is believed to be derived from the Sanskrit word upala (उपल)...
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(lake) sediments; the sediments are underlain by rhyolite and basalt, and overlain by basalt. The western plain began to form around 11–12 Ma (million years...
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Mono–Inyo Craters (category Landforms of the Sierra Nevada (United States))
are on Mammoth Mountain. The Red Cones, south of Mammoth Mountain, are basaltic cinder cones and are the southernmost part of the Mono–Inyo Craters volcanic...
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Tuff (redirect from Basaltic tuff)
kilometers (39,000 sq mi) of Nevada. Ash flow tuffs are the only volcanic product with volumes rivaling those of flood basalts. The Tioga Bentonite of the...
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Cymopterus basalticus (redirect from Basalt springparsley)
produces purple or yellow flowers in spring. C. basalticus grows on bare basaltic and clay soils typically in pinyon-juniper woodland and sagebrush communities...
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