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Valley of Fire State Park is a public recreation and nature preservation area covering nearly 46,000 acres (19,000 ha) located 16 miles (26 km) south of Overton, Nevada. [4] The state park derives its name from red sandstone formations, the Aztec Sandstone , which formed from shifting sand dunes 150 million years ago. [ 5 ]
Elephant Rock is located 42 miles (68 km) northeast of downtown Las Vegas in the Valley of Fire State Park near the park's east entrance. The landform is one of the most photographed attractions within the park. [4] It is set in the Mojave Desert and it is one of the most famous sandstone features in Nevada. [5]
The Valley of Fires Recreation Area provides access to the Malpaís on its east edge, about 3 miles (4.8 km) west of Carrizozo on U.S. Route 380. [9] The highway has several scenic overlooks where it crosses the Malpaís. The entire extent of the flow can be seen from higher elevations to the east on U.S. Route 380.
Valley of Fire near Las Vegas. The geology of Nevada began to form in the Proterozoic at the western margin of North America. Terranes accreted to the continent as a marine environment dominated the area through the Paleozoic and Mesozoic periods.
Sandstone from the Valley of Fire, Nevada, is usually cemented by calcite but the calcium borate mineral, colemanite, has also been found in some cases to act as a cement. [4] A similar phenomenon is observed in felsic alkaline rocks , such as nepheline syenite, alkaline syenite, phonolite, and trachyte, because of weathering vulnerability of ...
Two female hikers were found dead in Nevada’s Valley of Fire State Park on Saturday afternoon, state police say.
September 6, 2006 – Another fire was started by lightning in the loop near the visitor center and burned around 1,500 acres (2.3 sq mi; 6.1 km 2). [ citation needed ] July 2013 – The Carpenter I fire burned mainly in the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area , but encroached on the northwest portion of Red Rock Canyon National ...
The Knox Supergroup, also known as the Knox Group and the Knox Formation, is a widespread geologic group in the Southeastern United States. The age is from the Late Cambrian to the Early Ordovician.