Ring Mountain
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View of the Tiburon Peninsula from Ring Mountain. On the right in the background the skyline of San Francisco .
Ring Mountain is a high plateau near the village of Tiburon in Marin County, California . Ring Mountain is a popular destination for day-trippers because of its all-round views of San Francisco Bay . Ring Mountain is the only place on earth where the extremely rare Tiburon Mariposa Lily ( Calochortus tiburonensis ) from the Mormon tulip genus grows. Ring Mountain is also known for its petroglyphs , rock carvings from before European settlers arrived in the American West . The highest point of Ring Mountain is around 184 meters above sea level.
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literature
- Horst Rademacher: Ring Mountain Rocks! Marin's Exotic Geology Exposed , in: Bay Nature magazine, April – June 2007
Web links
Commons : Ring Mountain - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Open Space: Ring Mountain , on the Marin County Parks website
Remarks
- ↑ NGS Data Sheet for Ring Mountain , last accessed March 11, 2018.
Coordinates: 37 ° 54 '34.9 " N , 122 ° 29' 8.8" W.