81 relations: Alabama Hills, Basin and Range Province, Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada, Big Pine volcanic field, Big Pine, California, Bishop Tuff, Bishop, California, Cadillac Desert, California, California State Route 168, California water wars, Chalfant, California, Chinatown (1974 film), Chumash people, Comanche language, Conservation easement, Coso Range, Death Valley, Devils Postpile National Monument, Dry lake, Earthquake, Eastern California, Endemism, Endorheic basin, Escarpment, Fort Independence (California), Furnace Creek, California, Glacier, Graben, Gravity, Great Basin, Humboldt River, Humboldt Sink, Ice age, Independence, California, Internment of Japanese Americans, Inyo County, California, Inyo Mountains, James Hahn, John C. Frémont, Joseph R. Walker, Language family, Little Lake, Inyo County, California, Lone Pine, California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Aqueduct, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Manzanar, Memorandum of understanding, Mono Basin, ..., Mono people, Moraine, Mount Whitney, Northern Paiute language, Numic languages, Owens Lake, Owens River, Owens Valley Indian War, Owens Valley Radio Observatory, Rain shadow, Richard Lemon Owings, Sedimentary rock, Shoshoni language, Sidalcea covillei, Sierra Nevada (U.S.), Sierra Nevada Fault, The Buttermilks, Timbisha, Timbisha language, U.S. Route 395 in California, United States, United States Geological Survey, Uto-Aztecan languages, Very Long Baseline Array, Walker Lane, Walker Pass, Westgard Pass, White Mountains (California), William Mulholland, World War II, 1872 Lone Pine earthquake. Expand index (31 more) »
Alabama Hills
The Alabama Hills are a range of hills and rock formations near the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada in the Owens Valley, west of Lone Pine in Inyo County, California, United States.
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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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Bibliography of the Sierra Nevada
The following is a bibliography of the Sierra Nevada of California, United States, including books on recreation, natural history, and human history.
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Big Pine volcanic field
Big Pine volcanic field is a volcanic field in Inyo County, California.
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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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Bishop Tuff
The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff that formed 767,100 ± 900 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the eruption that created the Long Valley Caldera.
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Bishop, California
Bishop (formerly Bishop Creek) is a city in Inyo County, California, United States.
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Cadillac Desert
Cadillac Desert, by Marc Reisner, is a 1986 book published by Viking about land development and water policy in the western United States.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California State Route 168
California State Route 168 (CA 168) is an east-west state highway in California, USA, which is separated into two distinct segments, in part by the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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California water wars
The California water wars were a series of political conflicts between the city of Los Angeles and farmers and ranchers in the Owens Valley of Eastern California over water rights.
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Chalfant, California
Chalfant (also, Chalfant Valley) is a census-designated place in Mono County, California.
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Chinatown (1974 film)
Chinatown is a 1974 American neo-noir mystery film, directed by Roman Polanski from a screenplay by Robert Towne, starring Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway.
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Chumash people
The Chumash are a Native American people who historically inhabited the central and southern coastal regions of California, in portions of what is now San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, extending from Morro Bay in the north to Malibu in the south.
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Comanche language
Comanche is a Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Comanche people, who split off from the Shoshone soon after they acquired horses around 1705.
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Conservation easement
In the United States, a conservation easement (also called conservation covenant, conservation restriction or conservation servitude) is a power invested in a qualified private land conservation organization (often called a "land trust") or government (municipal, county, state or federal) to constrain, as to a specified land area, the exercise of rights otherwise held by a landowner so as to achieve certain conservation purposes.
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Coso Range
The Coso Range of eastern California is located immediately south of Owens Lake (dry), east of the Sierra Nevada, and west of the Argus Range.
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Death Valley
Death Valley is a desert valley located in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert bordering the Great Basin Desert.
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Devils Postpile National Monument
Devils Postpile National Monument is a National Monument located near Mammoth Mountain in eastern California.
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Dry lake
A dry lake is either a basin or depression that formerly contained a standing surface water body, which disappeared when evaporation processes exceeded recharge.
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Earthquake
An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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Eastern California
Eastern California is a region defined as either the strip to the east of the crest of the Sierra Nevada or as the easternmost counties of California in the United States.
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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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Endorheic basin
An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin or endorreic basin) (from the ἔνδον, éndon, "within" and ῥεῖν, rheîn, "to flow") is a limited drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other external bodies of water, such as rivers or oceans, but converges instead into lakes or swamps, permanent or seasonal, that equilibrate through evaporation.
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Escarpment
An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as an effect of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively leveled areas having differing elevations.
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Fort Independence (California)
Fort Independence, originally named Camp Independence, was a fort located in the Owens Valley, north of present-day Independence, Inyo County, eastern California.
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Furnace Creek, California
Furnace Creek is a census-designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California.
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Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
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Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the Earth's crust bordered by parallel faults.
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Gravity
Gravity, or gravitation, is a natural phenomenon by which all things with mass or energy—including planets, stars, galaxies, and even light—are brought toward (or gravitate toward) one another.
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Great Basin
The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.
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Humboldt River
The Humboldt River runs through northern Nevada in the western United States.
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Humboldt Sink
Humboldt Sink is an intermittent dry lake bed, approximately 11 mi (18 km) long, and 4 mi (6 km) across, in northwestern Nevada in the United States.
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Ice age
An ice age is a period of long-term reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.
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Independence, California
Independence is a census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
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Internment of Japanese Americans
The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000Various primary and secondary sources list counts between persons.
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Inyo County, California
Inyo County is a county in the U.S. state of California.
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Inyo Mountains
The Inyo Mountains are a short mountain range east of the Sierra Nevada mountains in eastern California in the United States.
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James Hahn
James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American lawyer and politician.
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John C. Frémont
John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States.
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Joseph R. Walker
Joseph R. Walker (December 13, 1798 — October 27, 1876) was a mountain man and experienced scout.
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Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
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Little Lake, Inyo County, California
Little Lake is a former settlement in Inyo County that lies just off U.S. Route 395 on Little Lake Road.
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Lone Pine, California
Lone Pine is a census designated place (CDP) in Inyo County, California, United States.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles Aqueduct
The Los Angeles Aqueduct system, comprising the Los Angeles Aqueduct (Owens Valley aqueduct) and the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct, is a water conveyance system, built and operated by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States, serving over four million residents.
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Manzanar
Manzanar is most widely known as the site of one of ten American concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II from December 1942 to 1945.
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Memorandum of understanding
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) is a type of agreement between two (bilateral) or more (multilateral) parties.
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Mono Basin
The Mono Basin is an endorheic drainage basin located east of Yosemite National Park in California and Nevada.
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Mono people
The Mono are a Native American people who traditionally live in the central Sierra Nevada, the Eastern Sierra (generally south of Bridgeport), the Mono Basin, and adjacent areas of the Great Basin.
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Moraine
A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris (regolith and rock) that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions on Earth (i.e. a past glacial maximum), through geomorphological processes.
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Mount Whitney
Mount Whitney is the tallest mountain in California, as well as the highest summit in the contiguous United States and the Sierra Nevada—with an elevation of.
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Northern Paiute language
Northern Paiute, also known as Numu and Paviotso, is a Western Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, which according to Marianne Mithun had around 500 fluent speakers in 1994.
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Numic languages
Numic is a branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family.
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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 River
The Owens River is a river in eastern California in the United States, approximately long.
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Owens Valley Indian War
The Owens Valley War was fought between 1862 and 1863, by California Volunteers and local settlers against the Owens Valley Paiutes, and their Shoshone and Kawaiisu allies, in the Owens Valley of California and the southwestern Nevada border region.
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Owens Valley Radio Observatory
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) is a radio astronomy observatory located near Big Pine, California (US) in Owens Valley.
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is a dry area on the leeward side of a mountainous area (away from the wind).
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Richard Lemon Owings
Richard Lemon Owings(1812-1902), more commonly known as "Richard Owens" or "Dick Owens", was a pioneer of the American West who played an important role in John C. Fremont's third expedition to the Great Basin and California.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Shoshoni language
Shoshoni, also written as Shoshoni-Gosiute and Shoshone (Shoshoni: Sosoni' ta̲i̲kwappe, newe ta̲i̲kwappe or neme ta̲i̲kwappeh) is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family, spoken in the Western United States by the Shoshone people.
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Sidalcea covillei
Sidalcea covillei is an uncommon species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names Owens Valley sidalcea, and Owens Valley checkerbloom.
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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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Sierra Nevada Fault
The Sierra Nevada Fault is an active seismic fault along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada mountain block in California.
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The Buttermilks
The Buttermilks, or Buttermilk Country, is a well known bouldering destination.
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Timbisha
The Timbisha ("rock paint") are a Native American tribe federally recognized as the Death Valley Timbisha Shoshone Band of California.
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Timbisha language
Timbisha (Tümpisa; also called Panamint or Koso) is the language of the Native American people who have inhabited the region in and around Death Valley, California and the southern Owens Valley since late prehistoric times.
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U.S. Route 395 in California
In the U.S. state of California, U.S. Route 395 (US 395) is a route which traverses from Interstate 15 near the southern city limits of Hesperia, north to the Oregon state line in Modoc County near Goose Lake.
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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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United States Geological Survey
The United States Geological Survey (USGS, formerly simply Geological Survey) is a scientific agency of the United States government.
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Uto-Aztecan languages
Uto-Aztecan or Uto-Aztekan is a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas, consisting of over 30 languages.
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Very Long Baseline Array
The Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) is a system of ten radio telescopes which are operated remotely from their Array Operations Center located in Socorro, New Mexico, as a part of the (LBO).
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Walker Lane
The Walker Lane is a geologic trough roughly aligned with the California/Nevada border southward to where Death Valley intersects the Garlock Fault, a major left lateral, or sinistral, strike-slip fault.
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Walker Pass
Walker Pass (el.) is a mountain pass by Lake Isabella in the southern Sierra Nevada.
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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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William Mulholland
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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1872 Lone Pine earthquake
The 1872 Lone Pine earthquake struck on March 26 at with an estimated moment magnitude of 7.4 to 7.9 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of X (Extreme).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owens_Valley