US 50 has been designated the Loneliest Road in America. It is also part of the Lincoln Highway, the first transcontinental US highway. This highway transects numerous mountain ranges which were created by cordilleran tectonics. Essentially, Nevada is the product of the Pacific Plate moving under (subducting) the North American Plate along the San Andreas Fault line. This movement crinkled Nevada like a piece of cloth shoved up against a hard surface. The mountain ranges are usually about 10 miles wide and usually no longer than 80 miles. They are separated by valleys. Earthquake faults are a major factor of this basin and range topography. Most of Nevada's mountain ranges are bounded on at least one side by a fault.
The book Nevada Mountain Ranges by George Wuerthner describes Nevada as “the poor person's Alaska because it has some of the wildest, most remote, , least traveled country this side of Canada.”
Traveling America's Loneliest Road, A geologic and natural history tour through Nevada along U.S. Highway 50. Joseph V. Tingley and Kris Ann Pizarro. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology special publication 26. (2000)
Nevada Mountain Ranges, George Wuerthner. American World and Geographic Publishing. (1992)
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