The Diabase Hills are a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada.[1]
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The DiabaseHills are a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada. "DiabaseHills". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey...
Look up diabase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Diabase (/ˈdaɪ.əˌbeɪs/), also called dolerite (/ˈdɒl.əˌraɪt/) or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline...
of a flat terrace. These hills are situated in the diabasic portion and are composed of a distinct type of rock called Diabase-Schist-Tuff, as noted in...
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The diabase rock was used as building material in growing areas like Jersey City. The remnant of the hill is the defining feature of Laurel Hill County...
of the Kirana Hills are measured at the 1,050 ft (320 m) with average peaks at highest peak is about 600 feet (180 m). The Kirana Hills is a series of...
University. Wherry theorized that the ringing was due to the texture of the diabase rocks and that they were supported by other rocks. He identified the boulder...
(otherwise known as dolerite or diabase) of Ordovician age. The former slate quarries at Rosebush on the southern edge of the hills worked the Aber Mawr Formation...
Formation – which is covered by the hard, protective 60 m (200 ft) thick diabase cap.: iii, 2 The Rove Formation is part of the Animikie Group.: 32 The...
thick. Other intrusive igneous rocks are noticeable as the black dikes of diabase, visible on the southwest face of Mount Moran and on the Grand Teton. Starting...
products were gold, tin, iron, minerals, earths and rock (basalt, brown coal, diabase, granite, silt, marble, soapstone, clay and peat). In earlier times uranium...
actions at Gettysburg, and of the entire war. Little Round Top is a large diabase spur of Big Round Top with an oval crest that forms a short ridgeline with...
(secondary coordinates) This list of mountains and hills in the Harz contains a selection of mountains, hills, high points and their outliers in the Harz Mountains...
Schiefergebirge or Thüringisches Schiefergebirge, literally "Thuringian Slate Hills") is a low range of mountains in the German state of Thuringia. The Thuringian...
altered Hope Shales of the Ordovician Period on the margin of the dolerite (diabase) produce finely laminated flagstones, which were widely used on building...
and diabase. They are sometimes only a fraction of an inch in thickness, resembling a thin layer of pitch or tar on the edge of a crystalline diabase dike...
granites and rhyolites (the red rocks), gabbroic rocks, anorthosites, and diabases (the black rocks). Subsidence resulted in burial by sandstones and carbonates...
them, Wach Unks (High Hills). In the 18th century, the Euro-American settlers also called them the Blue Mountains or Blue Hills (not to be confused with...
local sandstone and conglomerate. The portions have been intruded by a Diabase Dike of the Apace Group. Summerhaven is a small town near the top of the...
designated a National Natural Landmark, being "the best example of a thick diabase sill in the United States". It underlies a portion of northwest Staten...
Magma was injected between layers of sedimentary rock, forming diabase sills. This hard diabase protects the layers of sedimentary rock below, forming the...
the mining permits. Foulden Maar is named for the nearby farm of Foulden Hills, itself probably named after the town of Foulden in the Scottish Borders...