Ring Mountain (California)

Ring Mountain
Elevation 603 ft (184 m) NAVD 88[1]
Location
Location Marin County, California, USA
Coordinates [1]
Topo map USGS San Quentin

Ring Mountain is an elevated landform on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California. This mountain was named for George E. Ring, who served as a Marin County Supervisor from 1895 to 1903.[2]

A number of rare and endangered flora inhabit Ring Mountain.[3] The landscape is strewn with many sizable boulders which exhibit a variety of lithologies including high-pressure metamorphic rocks of amphibolite and eclogite grade.[4]

Native American Pecked curvilinear nucleated Petroglyphs are here also, of the Coast Miwok people.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Ring". NGS data sheet. U.S. National Geodetic Survey. http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=HT3167. 
  2. ^ "Ring Mountain, Open Space Preserve". County of Marin. Archived from the original on 2008-06-21. http://web.archive.org/web/20080621221917/http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/PK/Main/os/osdring.cfm. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
  3. ^ Earth Metrics Inc. (1989) Marinero Estates Environmental Impact Report, Tiburon, California, prepared for the city of Tiburon, Ca.
  4. ^ Hogan, C. Michael (2008). "Ring Mountain – Carving in United States in The West". In Burnham, Andy. The Megalithic Portal. http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=19244. Retrieved 2009-12-07. 
  5. ^ C. Michael Hogan (2008) Ring Mountain, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham [1]

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