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30 relations: Basin and Range Province, Big Pine, California, Bristlecone pine, Bureau of Land Management, California, Cambrian, Caulostramina, Cryptantha roosiorum, Desert bighorn sheep, Endangered species, Endemism, Fault block, Geology, Great Basin, Inyo Mountains salamander, Inyo National Forest, Larrea tridentata, Limestone, Mountain range, Owens Lake, Owens Valley, Perityle inyoensis, Proterozoic, Sagebrush, Saline Valley, California, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), United States, Waucoba Mountain, Westgard Pass, White Mountains (California).
Basin and Range Province
The Basin and Range Province is a vast physiographic region covering much of the inland Western United States and northwestern Mexico.
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Big Pine, California
Big Pine (formerly, Bigpine) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States.
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Bristlecone pine
The term bristlecone pine covers three species of pine tree (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus, subsection Balfourianae).
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Bureau of Land Management
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is an agency within the United States Department of the Interior that administers more than of public lands in the United States which constitutes one-eighth of the landmass of the country.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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Cambrian
The Cambrian Period was the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Caulostramina
Caulostramina is a monotypic plant genus in the mustard family containing the single species Caulostramina jaegeri, which is known by the common name cliffdweller.
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Cryptantha roosiorum
Cryptantha roosiorum is a species of flowering plant in the borage family known by the common name bristlecone cryptantha.
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Desert bighorn sheep
Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) is a subspecies of bighorn sheep (''Ovis canadensis''), that is native to the deserts of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species which has been categorized as very likely to become extinct.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Fault block
Fault blocks are very large blocks of rock, sometimes hundreds of kilometres in extent, created by tectonic and localized stresses in the Earth's crust.
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Geology
Geology (from the Ancient Greek γῆ, gē, i.e. "earth" and -λoγία, -logia, i.e. "study of, discourse") is an earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
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Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.
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Inyo Mountains salamander
The Inyo Mountains salamander (Batrachoseps campi) is an endangered species of salamander in the Plethodontidae family that is endemic to California.
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Inyo National Forest
Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada.
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Larrea tridentata
Larrea tridentata is known as creosote bush and greasewood as a plant, chaparral as a medicinal herb, and as gobernadora in Mexico, Spanish for "governess", due to its ability to secure more water by inhibiting the growth of nearby plants.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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Mountain range
A mountain range or hill range is a series of mountains or hills ranged in a line and connected by high ground.
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Owens Lake
Owens Lake is a mostly dry lake in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada in Inyo County, California.
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Owens Valley
Owens Valley is the colonial name of Payahǖǖnadǖ (Numic: place of flowing water), the, now, arid valley of the Owens River in eastern California in the United States, to the east of the Sierra Nevada and west of the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains on the west edge of the Great Basin section.
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Perityle inyoensis
Perityle inyoensis, known by the common names Inyo rockdaisy and Inyo laphamia, is a rare species of flowering plant in the aster family.
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Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is a geological eon representing the time just before the proliferation of complex life on Earth.
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Sagebrush
Sagebrush is the common name of several woody and herbaceus species of plants in the genus Artemisia.
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Saline Valley, California
Saline Valley is a large, deep, and arid valley in the northern Mojave Desert of California.
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Sierra Nevada (U.S.)
The Sierra Nevada (snowy saw range) is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Waucoba Mountain
Waucoba Mountain with an elevation of is the highest peak in the Inyo Mountains of eastern California.
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Westgard Pass
Westgard Pass (el. 7,313 ft. / 2,229 m.) is a narrow gap between the White Mountains and Inyo Mountains ranges in the Basin and Range Province of eastern California.
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White Mountains (California)
The White Mountains of California and Nevada are a triangular fault-block mountain range facing the Sierra Nevada across the upper Owens Valley.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inyo_Mountains
