Mount Elden

Mount Elden
Mount Elden

Mount Elden
Elevation 9,299 ft (2,834 m)
Location
Location Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Coordinates 35°14′28″N 111°35′48″W / 35.24111°N 111.59667°W / 35.24111; -111.59667
Topo map USGS Flagstaff East
Geology
Type lava dome
Climbing
Easiest route road

Mount Elden, or Elden (Eldon) Mountain, is located in central Coconino County northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. It takes its name from one of the region's earliest Anglo settlers, John Elden, who, along with his family, established a homestead on the mountain’s lower slopes and grazed sheep on the open grasslands below during the late 19th century.[1]

The mountain’s exposed, rocky slopes are a dominant feature from almost any part of the city of Flagstaff, rising steeply nearly 730 m to an elevation of 2,834 m above sea level. Much of the vegetation on the southern and southeastern slopes of the mountain was destroyed by a 18 km² human-caused wildfire in June 1977.[2]

Despite its rugged appearance, steep relief, and nearly 40 km2 of surface area,[3] Mount Elden is easily accessible via an extensive, well-developed road and non-motorized trail system that is part of the Coconino National Forest.

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Geology

Mount Elden is one of five large peripheral silicic volcanic features within the greater San Francisco Peaks volcanic system (part of the San Francisco volcanic field) which include the nearby Dry Lake Hills, the Hochderffer and White Horse Hills to the northwest, and O'Leary Peak to the northeast.[4] Because these features developed within close proximity of the San Francisco Mountain strato-volcano there is a strong likelihood that each is a geologic subsidiary of the larger mountain.[3]

Geologically, Mount Elden is a lava dome composed almost entirely of dacitic lava flows which emerged from several vents. These features emerged as intrusive emplacements within sedimentary blocks or as viscous extrusive flows in which the younger flows partially covered the older, lower flows. Geologic evidence suggests that the eruption of the mountain, which occurred at linear vents along regional faults, was a non-explosive event that took place during several flow sequences. Likewise, because of the high viscosity of the dacite, it is likely that the mountain formed in the short period of a few month's time.[3] The mountain’s overlapping flows commonly take lobe-like shapes which display a variety of flow characteristics and features including concentric benches, spires, ramping shear fractures, longitudinal tension fractures, and conjugate shear fractures.[4]

Positioned within the central part of Mount Elden, on the mountain’s eastern and northwestern flanks are two sedimentary blocks. Both of these blocks display characteristics of uplift that most likely occurred as dacitic magma intruded into the sedimentary strata at a shallow depth and uplifted the layers, causing them to dip away from the mountain.[3] These blocks of sedimentary material are unique to the mountain, which otherwise is uniformly composed of silicic dacite.

See also

  • Elden Pueblo

References

  1. ^ Cline, Platt (1976). They came to the mountain: the story of Flagstaff’s beginnings. Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University. p. 210. ISBN 0-87358-153-9. 
  2. ^ Ashworth, Donna (1991). Biography of a Small Mountain. Flagstaff: Small Mountain Books. p. 347. ISBN 978-0963036438. 
  3. ^ a b c d Kluth, Charles (1974). Geology of the Elden Mountain Area, Coconino County, Arizona (Thesis). Flagstaff: Northern Arizona University. OCLC 27667856. 
  4. ^ a b Nations, J. Dale, et al. (1986). Geology of Central and Northern Arizona: Field Trip Guidebook for Geological Society of America, Rocky Mountain Section Meeting. Flagstaff: Geology Dept., Northern Arizona University. pp. 27–30. OCLC 14645315. 

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