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==See Also==
The Lava Beds are located in the Sheepshead mountains. The Lava Beds are granite, not lava.  Elephant Head Rock is an arch that is 40 feet across and 20 feet high.
 
==External Resources==
* H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingle, [http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/of8503.pdf OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada]," Staggs District, p 166, 1985.  
* H.F. Bonham, Jr., L.J. Garside, R.B. Jones, K.G. Papke, J.Quade, and J.V. Tingle, [http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/of8503.pdf OF1985-03: A mineral inventory of the Paradise-Denio -- and Sonoma-Gerlach Resource Areas, Winnemucca District, Nevada]," Staggs District, p 166, 1985.  
* National Geographic Society, "[http://books.google.com/books/about/America_s_hidden_corners.html?id=WpV1AAAAMAAJ America's Hidden Corners: Places Off the Beaten Path,]" p. 17-19, 1983. Alvin McLane takes a photographer to Elephant Head Rock.
* http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds
* http://www.lrrforums.com/showthread.php?13361-Oct-3-2009-Elephant-Rock-Lava-Beds
* http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html
* http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/elephant-head-rock-lava-beds.html
* http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/lava-beds-citizens-proposed-wilderness_11.html
* http://hikingnevada.blogspot.com/2008/04/lava-beds-citizens-proposed-wilderness_11.html
* http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/04/07/67965.php OLD LINK
* Mark Vanderhoff, "[http://www.rgj.com/news/stories/html/2004/04/07/67965.php Lava Beds Rest Quietly,]" Reno Gazette-Journal, April 7, 2004. (Dead link as of 2014-01-01)
 
* BLM, "[https://www.blm.gov/adoptahorse/herdareas.php?showAll=yes&herd_areas_seq=56&herd_states_seq=8 State Herd Area: Lava Beds (NV).]"
Lava Beds rest quietly, Mark Vanderhoff, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL, 4/7/2004,
 
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Elephant Head Rock, for example, a feature of the Lava Beds and the high point of the Sheephead Mountains, stands at just 6,283 feet. What the map doesn’t say is that Elephant Head Rock contains a natural arch that’s 40 feet across and 20 feet high.
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(Alvin McLane, 69, of Reno) took a National Geographic photographer and writer to the site in 1983 for book called “America’s Hidden Corners.”
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The name “Lava Beds” is a misnomer, ... consist of granitic rock ranging in age from 85 to 104 millions years. That granite is considered to be an extension of the Sierra Nevada batholith
 
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Revision as of 01:25, 2 January 2014

The Lava Beds are located in the Sheepshead mountains. The Lava Beds are granite, not lava. Elephant Head Rock is an arch that is 40 feet across and 20 feet high.

External Resources