Draft:Mount Cima
Mount Cima
[edit]| Mount Cima | |
|---|---|
| Mountain's Peak | |
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 11,863 ft (3,616 m) |
| Prominence | 3,150 ft (960 m) |
| Coordinates | 36°25′09″N 118°28′30″W / 36.419199°N 118.475083°W |
| Geography | |
  Mount Cima  Mount Cima Mount Cima (the United States) | |
| Parent range | Sierra Nevada |
| Geology | |
| Age of rock | Cretaceous |
| Mountain type | Granite |
The Mount Cima is a Granite Mountain located in The Sierra Nevada. With a summit reaching 11,863 ft (3,616 m).
Geography
[edit]Mount Cima is located in the South Sierra Nevada and is close to many famous Mountain peaks like Mount Whitney and Mount Cima is located in Tulare County In Northern California. Mount Cima is also located 38 Miles East of The San Joaquin Valley and is only 23 Miles West Of Owens Valley In Inyo County
Major Cities Nearby
[edit]Mount Cima is spaced out from Major Cities with the closest one being Fresno, California 77 miles away barely beating Bakersfield, California 84 miles away and only being 165 Miles North of the famous Los Angeles, California With Vegas in the East being 185 Miles and are about 200 miles from Northern California's San Francisco and Sacramento.
Geology
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Cimas formed because the Sierra Nevada is the result of a fault block that is analogous to a cellar door: the door is hinged on the west and is slowly rising on the east.The rise is caused by a fault system that runs along the Sierra's eastern base, below Mount Whitney. Thus, the granite that forms Whitney is the same as that which forms the Alabama Hills, thousands of feet lower down. The raising of Whitney (and the downdrop of the Owens Valley) is due to the same geological forces that cause the Basin and Range Province: the crust of much of the intermontane west is slowly being stretched. The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith.[1] In Cretaceous time, masses of molten rock that originated from subduction rose underneath what is now Whitney and solidified underground to form large expanses of granite.[1] In the last 2 to 10 million years, the Sierra was pushed up, enabling glacial and river erosion to strip the upper layers of rock to reveal the resistant granite that makes up Mount Whitney today.
Climate
[edit]Mount Cima has a alpine tundra climate Köppen: ET.Summer temperatures are highly variable, ranging from below freezing (32 °F (0 °C)) to highs near 80 °F (27 °C) during extreme heat waves
| Climate data for Mount Cima 36.419199,-118.475083 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 25.2 (−3.8) |
23.0 (−5.0) |
25.8 (−3.4) |
31.2 (−0.4) |
38.7 (3.7) |
48.9 (9.4) |
55.2 (12.9) |
54.5 (12.5) |
49.6 (9.8) |
41.5 (5.3) |
31.9 (−0.1) |
24.3 (−4.3) |
37.5 (3.1) |
| Daily mean °F (°C) | 15.6 (−9.1) |
13.1 (−10.5) |
15.6 (−9.1) |
19.6 (−6.9) |
26.0 (−3.3) |
35.2 (1.8) |
41.2 (5.1) |
40.5 (4.7) |
36.8 (2.7) |
30.4 (−0.9) |
21.8 (−5.7) |
15.2 (−9.3) |
25.9 (−3.4) |
| Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 6.0 (−14.4) |
3.3 (−15.9) |
5.4 (−14.8) |
8.0 (−13.3) |
13.4 (−10.3) |
21.6 (−5.8) |
27.2 (−2.7) |
26.5 (−3.1) |
24.1 (−4.4) |
19.2 (−7.1) |
11.6 (−11.3) |
6.2 (−14.3) |
14.4 (−9.8) |
| Average precipitation inches (mm) | 8.37 (213) |
8.88 (226) |
5.79 (147) |
3.94 (100) |
1.92 (49) |
0.51 (13) |
0.31 (7.9) |
0.19 (4.8) |
0.27 (6.9) |
1.90 (48) |
2.51 (64) |
7.91 (201) |
42.5 (1,080.6) |
| Source: PRISM Climate Group[2] | |||||||||||||
- ^ a b McPhee, John (2000). Annals of a Former World. Macmillan. ISBN 0374708460. Archived from the original on 2023-11-03. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
- ^ "PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University". PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University. Archived from the original on July 25, 2019. Retrieved September 28, 2023.
To find the table data on the PRISM website, start by clicking Coordinates (under Location); copy Latitude and Longitude figures from top of table; click Zoom to location; click Precipitation, Minimum temp, Mean temp, Maximum temp; click 30-year normals, 1991-2020; click 800m; click Retrieve Time Series button.