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The Aztec Sandstone is an Early Jurassic geological formation of primarily eolian sand from which fossil pterosaur tracks have been recovered. [4] The formation is exposed in the Mojave Desert of Arizona, California and Nevada. Aztec Sandstone is named after the Aztec Tank, [5] a lake in the Spring Mountain region of Nevada.
Red Rock Resort. / 36.15444°N 115.33028°W / 36.15444; -115.33028. Red Rock Resort is a hotel and casino in Summerlin South, Nevada, located in the Las Vegas Valley. It is owned and operated by Station Casinos on 59.43 acres (24.05 ha) [2] located in the Downtown Summerlin neighborhood. It is Station Casinos' flagship property, [3] [4 ...
Nevada State Route 159. Nevada State Route 159, highlighted in red. State Route 159 ( SR 159) is a 31.204-mile (50.218 km) east–west highway in Clark County, Nevada, United States, providing access to Red Rock Canyon and serving as a thoroughfare in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. A portion of the west end of the route is designated a Nevada ...
November 21, 1978. Red Rock is a rock formation in south-central Wyoming that was used by travelers on the Overland Trail to record signature inscriptions from passersby. The wind-smoothed red rock stands about 20 feet (6.1 m) high and has a circumference of about 120 feet (37 m). The sandstone formation records signatures dating to at least ...
State Route 225. State Route 225 ( SR 225) is a state highway in Elko County, Nevada, United States. Known as the Mountain City Highway, it connects the city of Elko to the town of Owyhee near the southwestern Idaho border via Mountain City. The route provides connections to Mountain Home, Idaho and Interstate 84 via Idaho State Highway 51 .
pluvial lake (a paleolake created by a change in water balance in the basin) Etymology. Benjamin Bonneville. Surface area. ~20,000 sq mi (51,000 km 2) (at max. lake level) Max. depth. over 980 ft (300 m) Lake Bonneville was the largest Late Pleistocene paleolake in the Great Basin of western North America.
Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails. / 40.9107333°N 119.0560111°W / 40.9107333; -119.0560111. The Black Rock Desert–High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area is the federal land in northwestern Nevada, under the Bureau of Land Management -BLM management and protection, and the ten Wilderness Areas ...
A sailing stone in Racetrack Playa. Sailing stones (also called sliding rocks, walking rocks, rolling stones, and moving rocks) are part of the geological phenomenon in which rocks move and inscribe long tracks along a smooth valley floor without animal intervention. The movement of the rocks occurs when large, thin sheets of ice floating on an ...