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Bishop Peak (elevation 1,546 ft) is a peak of volcanic rock near the city of San Luis Obispo, California. It is the tallest of the Morros or Nine Sisters, a chain of similar peaks stretching to Morro Bay. It takes its name from its resemblance to a bishop's miter. San Luis Obispo, California. ...
A topographical summit is a point on a surface which is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. ...
San Luis Obispo, San Luis, or SLO (Spanish for ) is a city in California. ...
// The geological time scale is used by geologists and other scientists to describe the timing and relationships between events that have occurred during the History of Earth. ...
The city of San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (also SLO) is the county seat of San Luis Obispo County, California, USA. Luis is pronounced as Lewis. ...
The view from the top of Bishop Peak looking towards Morro Rock. ...
Morro Bay Docks with Morro Rock in the background. ...
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Geology
Like the other Morros, Bishop Peak is primarily composed of dacite. Over 20 million years ago, magma welled up underneath a layer of softer rock and soldified. The softer overlying rock has since eroded away, leaving a distinct rugged shape. Gray, red, black, altered white/tan, flow-banded pumice dacite Dacite is a high-silica igneous, volcanic rock. ...
Magma is molten rock located beneath the surface of the Earth (or any other rocky planet), and which often collects in a magma chamber. ...
Wildlife Bishop Peak's thin, rocky soil supports many plants that are not common in the surrounding area. Vegetation includes Oak woodland, sage scrub and chaparral. Species See List of Quercus species The term oak can be used as part of the common name of any of several hundred species of trees and shrubs in the genus Quercus, and some related genera, notably Cyclobalanopsis and Lithocarpus. ...
Limber Pine woodland, Toiyabe Range, central Nevada Biologically, a woodland is differentiated from a forest. ...
Binomial name Artemisia tridentata Nutt. ...
Scrub has a number of meanings: Look up scrub in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Chaparral is a shrubland biome found primarily in California, USA, that is shaped by a Mediterranean climate (mild, wet winters and hot dry summers) and wildfire. ...
Woodland areas are composed of species like coast live oak and California bay trees, as well as shrubs like poison oak and California blackberry. Scrub areas support many aromatic varieties of sage, such as coyote bush and monkeyflower. Binomial name Quercus agrifolia The Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia, also called the California live oak, is an evergeen oak, highly variable and often shrubby, found in the coastal regions of southwestern North America from Mendocino County, California south to northern Baja California in Mexico. ...
Binomial name Toxicodendron diversilobum Western poison oak (Toxicodendron diversilobum or, previously, Rhus diversiloba) is found only on the Pacific Coast of the United States and of Canada. ...
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Bird life includes large numbers of jays and other passerine birds, as well as birds of prey including golden eagles, bald eagles, owls and vultures. Animals include deer, raccoons and opossums as well as predators like foxes, coyotes, bobcats and mountain lion. Genera Many, see text Jay is a common name for several species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy passerine or perching birds in the family Corvidae, or crow family. ...
Families Many, see text A passerine is a bird of the giant order Passeriformes. ...
If you are looking for other meanings of the term, refer to Bird of prey (disambiguation). ...
Binomial name Aquila chrysaetos Linnaeus, 1758 The Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) is one of the best known birds of prey in the Northern Hemisphere. ...
Binomial name Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Linnaeus, 1766) The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), also known as the American Eagle, is a bird of prey found in North America, most recognizable as the national bird of the United States. ...
Families Strigidae Tytonidae An owl is a member of any of about 220 (222 currently known) species of solitary, mainly nocturnal birds of prey in the order Strigiformes. ...
A Nubian Vulture Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals. ...
Subfamilies Capreolinae Cervinae Hydropotinae Muntiacinae A deer is a ruminant mammal belonging to the family Cervidae. ...
Type Species Procyon lotor Linnaeus, 1758 Species Procyon cancrivorus Procyon insularis Procyon lotor Raccoons are nocturnal mammals in the genus Procyon of the Procyonidae family. ...
This article or section should be merged with Virginia_opossum The word opossum (usually pronounced without the leading O, or with only a very slight schwa) refers either to the Virginia Opossum in particular, or more generally to any of the other marsupials of magnorder Ameridelphia. ...
A Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes) A fox is a member of any of 27 species of small omnivorous canids. ...
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Binomial name Lynx rufus (Schreber, 1777) The Bobcat (Lynx rufus, commonly misinterpreted as Felis rufus) is a small wild cat indigenous to North America. ...
Binomial name Puma concolor (Linnaeus, 1771) The puma (Puma concolor) is a type of large cat found in North, Central and South America. ...
Land use In the past some quarrying has taken place, primarily to provide stone for the nearby city of San Luis Obispo. Currently Bishop Peak Natural Reserve covers 350 acres (1.4 km²) of land purchases or donated since 1977.
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