Table Mountain (Tuolumne County, California)

Table Mountain
Highest point
Elevation1,100 to 2,000[1] ft (340 to 610 m)
Coordinates37°58′59″N 120°26′04″W / 37.98298°N 120.4343621°W / 37.98298; -120.4343621[2]
Geography
LocationTuolumne County, California, U.S.
Parent rangeSierra Nevada
Topo mapUSGS Tuolumne

Table Mountain is a narrow, 18 mi (29 km)-long, sinuous, flat-topped ridge separated by erosional saddles into a series of mesas that extend from Lake Tulloch to just west of Columbia, California in Tuolumne County, California. It is just over 1,100 ft (340 m) in elevation at its southern end and just over 2,000 ft (610 m) in elevation at its northern end. Its flat top is part of a stack of multiple 80 mi (130 km)-long lava flows that have been eroded to form a series of mesas that extend from Knights Ferry to Sonora, California. Its crest varies in width from a narrow ridge to over 1,100 ft (340 m) wide. It parallels the adjacent Stanislaus River.[1][3][4]

  1. ^ a b "The Historical Topographic Map Collection". topoView. Reston, Virginia: United States Geological Survey. 2021.
  2. ^ "Table Mountain". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ^ Whitney, JD (1880). "The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California". Contributions to American Geology. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, at Cambridge Massachusetts. Vol. I. Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press and John Wilson and Son.
  4. ^ Bateman, PC; Wahrhaftig, C (1966). "Geology of the Sierra Nevada". In Bailey, EH (ed.). Geology of Northern California (PDF). California Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin. Vol. 190. pp. 105–172.