Name: Zirkel Mesa

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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Longitude: 1085518W

Latitude: 414738N

 

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Elevation: 7543/2299

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Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Part of the Leucite Hills.

Source: Kemp and Knight

 

We take great pleasure in naming this mesa after Professor Ferdinand Zirkel, of the University of Leipzig, who was the first to recognize the leucite in these rocks and to whom American petrographers in particular owe so great a debt for his petrographic report on the rocks collected by the geological survey along the fortieth parallel.

Source: Kemp and Knight 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: South Superior

 

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