Applegate-Lassen Emigrant Trail - The Death Route of 1849. Serves up a pretty mean plate of ravioli and he is a good source for local information and current conditions in the Black Rock Desert. Just north of town lay the Black Rock Playa (dry lakebed), spanning a distance of thirty miles. Trials and tribulations -the. World of Speed Facts and History. The great Bonneville Salt Flats provide some of the best conditions for setting land speed records. Other locales perfect for this include Black Rock Desert (also a dry lake bed) in Nevada and home to the famed Burning Man Festival; El Mirage (another dry lake bed) in the Mojave Desert of California; Lake Gairdner in Australia; the famed Texas Mile, run on an.
For the protected areas named for this desert, see. Black Rock DesertLength100 mi (160 km)Area1,000 sq mi (2,600 km 2)GeographyCountryUnited StatesStateNevada, andPopulation center:RiverThe Black Rock Desert is a semi-arid region (in the eco-region), of lava beds and, or, situated in the, a silt playa 100 miles (160 km) north of that encompasses more than 300,000 acres (120,000 ha) of land and contains more than 120 miles (200 km) of historic trails. It is in the northern section of the with a lakebed that is a dry remnant of.The Great Basin, named for the geography in which water is unable to flow out and remains in the basin, is a rugged land serrated by hundreds of mountain ranges, dried by wind and sun, with spectacular skies and scenic landscapes. The average annual precipitation (years 1971-2000) at (extreme south-west of the desert) is 7.90 inches (200 mm).The region is notable for its, as an area of 19th-century to, as a venue for, and as an alternative to the in northwestern Utah, for setting.
It is also the location for the annual event.The Black Rock Desert is part of the (NCA), a unit of the (BLM) National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS). The NCA is located in northwest Nevada, and was established by legislation in 2000. It is a unique combination of desert playa, narrow canyons, and mountainous areas.Humans have been in Black Rock Desert since approximately 10,000 B.P. Around 1300 AD the area was settled by the. The large black rock formation was used as a landmark by the Paiute and later emigrants crossing the area. The landmark is a conical outcrop composed of interbedded marine and volcanic rocks. At its base is a large hot spring and grassy meadow, which was an important place for those crossing the desert headed for California and Oregon.
In 1843, and his party were the first white men to cross the desert, and his trail was used by over half the 22,000 gold seekers headed to California after 1849. In 1867, a short-lived silver mill town was established (now a ). Black Rock Desert, Nevada, July 16, 2017, true-color, scale 1:190,000.The Black Rock Desert region is in northwestern and the northwestern. The extends for approximately 100 mi (160 km) northeast from the towns of and, between the to the east and the to the west.The Black Rock Desert is separated into two arms by the.
It lies at an elevation of 3,907 ft (1,191 m) and has an area of about 1,000 sq mi (2,600 km 2).There are several possible definitions of the extent of the Black Rock Desert. Often people refer just to the playa surface. Sometimes terrain which can be seen from the playa is included.
The widest definition of the Black Rock Desert region is the watershed of the basin that drains into the playa. The intermittent is the largest river in the region, starting in the and ending in the Quinn River Sink on the playa south of the Black Rock Range. The watershed covers 11,600 sq mi (30,000 km 2) including the Upper and Lower, Massacre Lake, and Thousand Creek /Virgin Valley watersheds of northwestern Nevada as well as small parts across the borders of California and Oregon.If the playa is wet for a month or so, the shallow waters teem with fairy shrimp, or born of eggs that lie dormant in the silt crust for long periods of time - sometimes for many years. The edges of the playa and the Quinn River Sink stay wet longer than the rest of the playa, which concentrates the fairy shrimp and migratory birds in those areas.
More than 250 species of neo-tropical migrant birds and many other water birds stop in Black Rock-High Rock Country for varying lengths of time. When wet, especially in spring, the playa is a favorite place for these winged visitors to rest and feed.When it rains, the playa can become extremely sticky, bogging down four-wheel-drive vehicles.
Driven by pilot, holds the current land speed record at 760 mph set October 15, 1997.The land speed record (or absolute land speed record) is the highest speed achieved by a person using a vehicle on land. There is no single body for validation and regulation; in practice the Category C ('Special Vehicles') flying start regulations are used, officiated by regional or national organizations under the auspices of the. The land speed record (LSR) is standardized as the speed over a course of fixed length, averaged over two runs (commonly called 'passes'). Two runs are required in opposite directions within one hour, and a new record mark must exceed the previous one by at least one percent to be validated. In his Packard '905' Special at in 1919Different clubs had different standards and did not always recognize the same world records until 1924, when the Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR) introduced new regulations: two passes in opposite directions (to negate the effects of wind) averaged with a maximum of 30 minutes (later more) between runs, average gradient of the racing surface not more than 1 percent, timing gear accurate within 0.01sec, and cars must be. National or regional auto clubs (such as and ) had to be AIACR members to ensure records would be recognized.
The AIACR became the FIA in 1947. Controversy arose in 1963: was not recognized due to its being a three-wheeler (leading the to certify it as a three-wheel motorcycle record when the FIA refused) and not wheel-driven so the FIA introduced a special. No holder of the absolute record since has been wheel-driven.Women's land speed record.
In a 26hp Napier, at, England, in 1908In 1906 broke the women's world speed record for the flying kilometer, recording a speed of 91 mph (146.25 km/h) and receiving the the 'Fastest Girl on Earth'. She drove a six-cylinder, a 100 hp (74.6 kW) development of the K5, in a speed trial in.While record keeping has not been as extensive, a report in 1974 confirmed that a subsequent record was held by Lee Breedlove, the wife of then overall record holder, who piloted her husband's to a record 308.506 mph (496.492 km/h) in 1965.
According to author, Craig Breedlove had talked Lee into taking the car out for a record attempt in order to monopolize the salt flats for the day and block one of his competitors from making a record attempt.The current women's absolute record was set by, in the jet-powered, three-wheeled, at the in 1976. Held back by her contract with a sponsor and using only 60 percent of her car's power, O'Neil reached 512.710 mph (825.127 km/h).On October 9, 2013, driver, in a vehicle of the running at the Alvord Desert, raised the women's four-wheel with an official run of 398.954 mph (632 km/h), surpassing Breedlove’s 48-year-old record. Combs continued with the North American Eagle Project, whose ongoing target is the overall land speed record; as part of that effort, Combs was killed, on August 27, 2019, during an attempt to raise the four-wheel record.Records 1898–1964 (wheel-driven). Archived from on 2008-10-11. Retrieved 2008-10-16. Cite uses deprecated parameter deadurl= ; Cite web requires website=.
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