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SOME OF NEVADA’S Explore the Amazing Geology of Nevada!
GEOLOGIC HIGHLIGHTS
Driving through Nevada, you may be miles
t Great Basin National Park’s from nowhere, but you are never far from
limestone caverns an interesting rock, the shoreline of an ice
age lake, or an active or historic mine. The
tVirginia City and the Silver State has some of the most diverse
Comstock Lode geology in the United States, and much
of it lies in plain sight thanks to the arid
t Frenchman Mountain’s climate of the Great Basin. With the help
Great Unconformity of Roadside Geology of Nevada there is
something new to discover around every
tRuby Mountains’ glacially bend in the road.
carved Lamoille Canyon
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