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In the scientific literature, both mesas are also known as North Oroville Table Mountain and South Oroville Table Mountain in order to differentiate them from the Tuolumne Table Mountain, which is also capped by the eroded remnant of a basaltic (or, more properly, a latite) lava flow, in the central foothills of California. [1]
The North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve is a nature reserve of 3,315 acres (13.42 km 2) located three miles (5 km) north of Oroville, in Butte County, northern California. The land was acquired by the state in October, 1993.
Phantom Falls or Coal Canyon Falls is a waterfall at Coal Canyon near Oroville, California, within the North Table Mountain Ecological Reserve. The waterfall is 166 feet (51 m) high [1] and runs off the edge of Coal Canyon, in front of a grotto. [citation needed] A small pool at the bottom is home to a California newt subspecies, the Coastal ...
Letchworth State Park is a 14,427-acre (5,838 ha) New York State Park located in Livingston County and Wyoming County in the western part of the State of New York. [1] [5] The park is roughly 17 miles (27 km) long, following the course of the Genesee River as it flows north through a deep gorge and over several large waterfalls. [6]
Dean's Ravine Falls is a 50-foot-tall (15 m) waterfall formed along Reed Brook in Canaan, Connecticut. [1] The falls were once a "must-see" spot along the 2,180-mile-long Appalachian Trail , until the trail was rerouted west of the Housatonic River through Sharon, Connecticut in the early 1980s.
According to Merriam-Webster, a ravine is "a small, narrow, steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water". [1] Some societies and languages do not differentiate between a gully and ravine; in others, there is a distinction, particularly when concerning environmental ...
The ravine is named after botanist Edward Tuckerman who studied alpine plants and lichens in the area in the 1830s and 1840s. According to the New England Ski Museum, the first recorded use of skis on Mount Washington was by a Dr. Wiskott of Breslau, Germany, who skied on the mountain in 1899, while the first skier in Tuckerman Ravine was John S. Apperson of Schenectady, New York, in April 1914.
Concow (Maidu: Koyoom Kʼawi, meaning "Meadow") [6] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place [7] (CDP) in the Sierra Nevada foothills covering eastern Butte County, California.