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The southeast of Arizona, with New Mexico, northwest Chihuahua and northeast Sonora contain insular sky island mountain ranges, (the Madrean Sky Islands), or smaller subranges in association. There are also numerous Sonoran Desert ranges, or Arizona transition zone ranges. Northern and northeast Arizona also has scattered ranges throughout.
Sharp Peak (Arizona) Pima: 3607 ft (1099 m) Brownell Peak: Pima: 3576 ft (1090 m) Safford Peak: Pima: 3563 ft (1086 m) Granite Mountain (Arizona) Maricopa: 3526 ft (1075 m) Miners Summit: Pinal: 3516 ft (1071 m) Diamond Peak (Arizona) Mohave: 3512 ft (1070 m) Big Horn Peak: Maricopa: 3480 ft (1061 m) Geronimo Head: Pinal: 3479 ft (1060 m) Troon ...
Granite Mountain is composed of Paleoproterozoic biotite granodiorite to granite that is known by geologist as the Mint Wash Granodiorite. [5] [6] The Mint Wash Granodiorite consists of medium to coarse-grained, weakly to strongly porphyritic granite with phenocrysts of gray to pink potassium feldspar up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in length and as much as eight percent biotite that is less than 8 mm (0. ...
The Granite Mountains of Arizona is a mountain range in the Sonoran Desert of southern Arizona. It is located in extreme western Pima County , Arizona, bordering southeast Yuma County . The Granite Mountains are an 18-mile (29 km) long range, trending mostly northwest-southeast; the north end of the range turns more northerly and aligns with ...
Basalt intruded into the basins and evaporites and other sediments accumulated, including salt beneath Phoenix, clay and zeolites in the Bowie area and gypsum in both the San Pedro and Verde valleys. The Sentinel volcanic field , west of Casa Grande, and the San Francisco volcanic field to the north of Flagstaff both formed in basins, extruded ...
The Phoenix Mountains are a mountain range located in central Phoenix, Arizona. With the exception of Mummy Mountain , they are part of the Phoenix Mountain Preserve . They serve as a municipal park and offer hiking , mountain biking and equestrian trails at a variety of different access points.
Humphreys Peak is the highest summit of the U.S. State of Arizona.. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of the U.S. State of Arizona.. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
The granite is part of a batholith dated 14 m.y.a locally known as Camelback Granite. It extends southward from Black Mountain and is expressed in outcrops in the McDowell Mountains, the Union Hills, and Camelback Mountain. Texturally, the granite varies from a large crystal with phenocrysts of up to 2.5 cm., to a finer grained crystal texture ...