Roberts Mountains
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 Location of the Roberts Mountains within Nevada
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Roberts Creek Mountain |
| Elevation | 10,133 ft (3,089 m) |
| Coordinates | 39°52.2′N 116°18.6′W / 39.8700°N 116.3100°W |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 16 mi (26 km) E-W |
| Width | 14 mi (23 km) N-S |
| Area | 180 sq mi (470 km2) |
| Geography | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Nevada |
| County | Eureka[1] |
| Geology | |
| Orogeny | Antler orogeny |
The Roberts Mountains are located in central
Eureka County, east of the Simpson Park Mountains and west and southwest of the Sulphur Spring Range. The range reaches a peak at Roberts Creek Mountain at 10,133 feet (3,089 m).[2] Nevada State Route 278 passes the east margin of the range in Garden Valley and continues about 25 miles (40 km) southeast to Eureka
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Roberts Mountains was named after Bolivar Roberts, a division superintendent of the Pony Express.[3][4]
Geology
The range contains rocks deformed by the
Ecology
The
leopard lizard
can also be found in the mountains.
Trees found in the range include:
single-leaf pinyon (Pinus monophylla)."Roberts Mountain". Biological Resources Research Center. Archived from the original
on 2005-01-21.
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Roberts Mountains
- ^ Simpson Park Mtns, 30x60 Topo Quad USGS 1979
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1941). Origin of Place Names: Nevada (PDF). W.P.A. p. 35.
- ^ Carlson, HS. 1974. Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary. University of Nevada Press
- ^ Crafford, A. Elizabeth Jones, Paleozoic tectonic domains of Nevada: An interpretive discussion to accompany the geologic map of Nevada, Geosphere, 2008, V. 4, No. 1, pp. 260-291 Abstract
- ISBN 0813700027
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