About: Needle Rock Natural Area
An Entity of Type: Igneous Intrusion,
from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org,
within Data Space: dbpedia.org
Needle Rock Natural Area is located at the western edge of the West Elk Mountains of Colorado. The surrounding terrain is characterized by laccolithic mountains flanked by precipitous cliffs, extensive talus aprons, forested mesas, canyons, and spacious, well-watered intermontane basins. Needle Rock is an intrusive plug of monzonite porphyry cropping out 3.5 miles (5.6 km) east-northeast (bearing 68°) of the Town of Crawford in Delta County, Colorado, United States. At an elevation of 7,797 feet (2,377 m), the towering rock spire stands 800 feet (240 m) tall above the floor of the Smith Fork of the Gunnison River valley. The massive rock feature originated in the Oligocene geological epoch when magma intruded between existing sedimentary rocks as the crown of a buried laccolith or possibly
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract |
|
| dbo:elevation |
|
| dbo:locatedInArea | |
| dbo:mountainRange | |
| dbo:nationalTopographicSystemMapNumber |
|
| dbo:thumbnail | |
| dbo:type | |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink | |
| dbo:wikiPageID |
|
| dbo:wikiPageLength |
|
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID |
|
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink |
|
| dbp:age |
|
| dbp:easiestRoute |
|
| dbp:elevationFt |
|
| dbp:label |
|
| dbp:location | |
| dbp:mapCaption |
|
| dbp:name |
|
| dbp:photo |
|
| dbp:photoCaption |
|
| dbp:range | |
| dbp:topo |
|
| dbp:type | |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| dcterms:subject | |
| georss:point |
|
| rdf:type |
|
| rdfs:comment |
|
| rdfs:label |
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| geo:geometry |
|
| geo:lat |
|
| geo:long |
|
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | |
| foaf:depiction | |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | |
| foaf:name |
|
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | |
| is dbp:parentPeak of | |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of |
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License