Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Black Point (east base). Lake Russell.

See also: Negit Island.

Elevation: 6926ft, 2111m.

Articles that refer to this location:

• Field Notes: 8 July 2009 at Black Point 8 July 2009 at The Fissures
• A Checklist Flora of the Mono Lake Basin, Mono County, California and Mineral County, Nevada.: Black Point Warm Springs

Literature Referring To This Location:

• Bursik, Marcus and Kerry Sieh. 1989. Range Front Faulting and Volcanism in the Mono Basin, Eastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 94(111):15,587-15,609. {TAS-pdf}
• Christensen, M. N. and C. M. Gilbert. 1964. Basaltic Cone Suggests Constructional Origin of Some Guyots. Science. 143(3603):240-242. {TAS-abs}
• Gilbert, C. M., M. N. Christensen, Yehya Al-Rawi, and K. R. Lajoie. 1968. Structural and Volcanic History of Mono Basin, California-Nevada. pp. 275-329 in Coats, Robert R., Richard L. Hay, and Charles A. Anderson. Studies in Volcanology: A Memoir in Honor of Howel Williams. Memoir 116. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1968. {TAS}
• Schneider, Jim. 2001. Gravity Modeling of Black Point, a “Surtseyan” style Tuff Cone, near Mono Lake, California. Senior Thesis Project, B.S. Geology (University of California, Davis) 2001. {TAS-pdf}
• White, J. D. L., and Bruce Houghton. 2000. Surtseyan and Related Phreatomagmatic Eruptions. pp. 495-512 in Sigurdsson, Haraldur. Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000. {TAS}
• White, J. D. L., and B. D. Pauly. 2007. Workshop on Surtseyan volcanism: shallow subaqueous explosive eruptions. {TAS-abs}

Area Plant Lists that contain this location:

• Area Plant List for Mono Basin.

Species collected at or near this location:

Asteraceae

Astereae

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. puberulus (D. C. Eaton) H. M. Hall & Clem. Yellow Rabbitbrush

Ericameria nauseosa (Pall. ex Pursh) G. I. Nesom & G. I. Baird oreophila (A.Nelson) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird. Rubber Rabbitbush

Cichorieae

Microseridinae

Pleiacanthus spinosus (Nutt.) Rydb. Thorny Skeletonweed

Stephanomeria exigua Nutt. Small Wirelettuce

Eupatorieae

Brickellia microphylla (Nutt.) A. Gray microphylla. Littleleaf Brickellbush

Helenieae

Psathyrotes annua (Nutt.) A. Gray. Annual Psathyrotes

Boraginaceae

Cryptantha confertiflora (Greene) Payson. Basin Yellow Cryptantha

Plagiobothrys kingii (S. Watson) A. Gray harknessii (Greene) Jepson. Harkness' Popcornflower

Chenopodiaceae

Atriplex canescens (Pursh.) Nutt. canescens. Four-wing Saltbush

Fabaceae

Astragalus canadensis L. brevidens (Gand.) Barneby. Short-Tooth Canadian Milkvetch

Loasaceae

Mentzelia torreyi A. Gray. Torrey's Blazing Star

Onagraceae

Eremothera boothii (Douglas) W. L. Wagner & Hoch boothii. Booth's Evening Primrose

Polemoniaceae

Eriastrum wilcoxii (A. Nelson) H. Mason. Wilcox's Woollystar

Polygonaceae

Eriogonum ampullaceum J. T. Howell. Mono Buckwheat

Eriogonum maculatum A. Heller. Spotted Buckwheat

Rubiaceae

Galium multiflorum Kellogg. Many-Flower Bedstraw

Poaceae

Poeae

Poa secunda J. Presl juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng. Sandberg Bluegrass.

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Date and time this article was prepared:12:13:05 PM, 2/14/2019.