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Seven Magic Mountains is an art installation in Ivanpah Valley, along the far southern end of Las Vegas Boulevard.It was created by the Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, but commissioned and financed by the Art Production Fund and the Nevada Museum of Art. [2]
Frenchman Mountain is a mountain located east of Las Vegas, Nevada.Made up of rocks similar to those found on the bottom of the Grand Canyon, Frenchman Mountain formed when faulting elevated and tilted the rocks followed by erosion, giving it its sharp triangular profile.
The oldest rocks in Nevada are in the East Humboldt Range in the northeast, with lead isotope data suggesting an age of 2.5 billion years, at the boundary of the Archean and Proterozoic. Metamorphic and igneous rocks formed 1.7 billion years ago underlie Clark County and the populous areas around Las Vegas.
Red Rock Canyon – Calico Hills trail An outcrop of Aztec Sandstone. The Red Rock area has a complex geological history, which over millions of years, helped create the region's dramatic landscape. The Red Rock area was under an ocean basin during the Paleozoic Era 600 million years ago.
Jutting out of the rocks in a remote mountain range near Las Vegas, the glimmering rectangular prism's reflective surface imitates the vast desert landscape surrounding the mountain peak where it ...
It is located on land managed by the United States Bureau of Land Management as the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, part of the Rainbow Mountain Wilderness Area. It is the highest peak in the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area. Mount Wilson is 17 miles (27 km) west of downtown Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada.
The first reported non-Native American visitor to the Las Vegas Valley was the Mexican scout Rafael Rivera in 1829.[10] [11] [12] Las Vegas was named by Mexicans in the Antonio Armijo party, [4] including Rivera, who used the water in the area while heading north and west along the Old Spanish Trail from Texas.
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