The Silver Peak plate. Relief from Copernicus GLO-30; rivers and lakes from USGS NHD; watersheds from the USGS Watershed Boundary Dataset; roads and city limits from Census TIGER 2024.
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−2° on Nov. 12, 1985, the coldest reading for this week of the year since 1967. Next is 10° in 2000.
Silver Peak’s center stands about 4,430 ft above sea level. Within three miles the land runs from 4,260 ft to 6,190 ft, a difference of 1,930 ft: steep hill country. The highest named summit within 15 miles is Silver Peak, about 9,330 ft, 8 miles west.
The section below crosses 9 rock units mapped at the surface.
Heights every 0.1 mile from the Copernicus GLO-90 surface model; vertical exaggeration about 4×. The colored band under the surface is the rock the state geologic map shows at the surface, not a picture of what lies beneath.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 8 mi of the line.
Volcanic. Age: Miocene, 5.3 to 23 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Quartzite, siltstone, phyllite. Age: Neoproterozoic to Early Cambrian, 521 to 1,000 million years old. About 3 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital, fine-detrital. Age: Pleistocene to Holocene, less than 2.6 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Sedimentary, volcanic. Age: Miocene to Pliocene, 2.6 to 23 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
Coarse-detrital. Age: Pliocene to Holocene, less than 5.3 million years old. About 2 mi of the line.
From the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation (Horton and others, 2017), the states’ geologic maps joined at a common scale. 3 smaller units along the line are not listed.
Heights from Copernicus GLO-90 (a surface model: it includes buildings and tree canopy); summits from USGS GNIS; rivers from USGS NHDPlus HR; rock from the USGS State Geologic Map Compilation.
Silver Peak has a cold desert climate. Summer afternoons average 97° in July; winter nights fall to about 18° in December. About 4 inches of rain fall in a normal year.
On November 14 Silver Peak normally reaches 57° and falls to 27°. The record high is 73°, in 1995; the record low 0°, in 1985. The most rain on this date, 0.02 in, fell in 1972.
Normals 1991–2020 and records since 1967 at Silverpeak, 4 miles east, 160 ft lower. NOAA, through RCC-ACIS.
