Query: G.N.I.S.

See also: Black Point (east base). Lake Russell.

See also: Negit Island.

Elevation: 6926ft, 2111m.

Articles that refer to this location:

• Field Notes: 8 July 2009 at Black Point;  8 July 2009 at The Fissures; 
• A Checklist Flora of the Mono Lake Basin, Mono County, California and Mineral County, Nevada.: Black Point;  Warm Springs; 

Literature Referring To This Location:

• Bursik, Marcus and Kerry Sieh. 1989. Range Front Faulting and Volcanism in the Mono Basin, Eastern California. Journal of Geophysical Research. 94(111):15,587-15,609. {TAS-pdf}
• Christensen, M. N. and C. M. Gilbert. 1964. Basaltic Cone Suggests Constructional Origin of Some Guyots. Science. 143(3603):240-242. {TAS-abs}
• Gilbert, C. M., M. N. Christensen, Yehya Al-Rawi, and K. R. Lajoie. 1968. Structural and Volcanic History of Mono Basin, California-Nevada. pp. 275-329 in Coats, Robert R., Richard L. Hay, and Charles A. Anderson. Studies in Volcanology: A Memoir in Honor of Howel Williams. Memoir 116. Boulder, Colorado: Geological Society of America, 1968. {TAS}
• Schneider, Jim. 2001. Gravity Modeling of Black Point, a “Surtseyan” style Tuff Cone, near Mono Lake, California. Senior Thesis Project, B.S. Geology (University of California, Davis) 2001. {TAS-pdf}
• White, J. D. L., and Bruce Houghton. 2000. Surtseyan and Related Phreatomagmatic Eruptions. pp. 495-512 in Sigurdsson, Haraldur. Encyclopedia of Volcanoes. San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 2000. {TAS}
• White, J. D. L., and B. D. Pauly. 2007. Workshop on Surtseyan volcanism: shallow subaqueous explosive eruptions. {TAS-abs}

Area Plant Lists that contain this location:

• Area Plant List for Mono Basin.

Species collected at or near this location.

This list summarizes plants collected or observed at this specific, named location. It does not include plants collected or observed at nearby named or unnamed locations. It may be more instructive to use the Area Lists that contain this location.

• TAS – The plant was collected by Tom Schweich.
• Oth – The plant was collected by someone, but not Tom.
• Obs – The plant was observed, but not collected.

Asteraceae

Brickellia microphylla (Nutt.) A. Gray microphylla. Littleleaf Brickellbush (Oth)

Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (Hook.) Nutt. puberulus (D. C. Eaton) H. M. Hall & Clem. Yellow Rabbitbrush (Oth)

Ericameria nauseosa (Pall. ex Pursh) G. I. Nesom & G. I. Baird oreophila (A.Nelson) G.L.Nesom & G.I.Baird. Rubber Rabbitbush (Oth)

Pleiacanthus spinosus (Nutt.) Rydb. Thorny Skeletonweed (Oth)

Psathyrotes annua (Nutt.) A. Gray. Annual Psathyrotes (Oth)

Stephanomeria exigua Nutt. Small Wirelettuce (Oth)

Boraginaceae

Cryptantha confertiflora (Greene) Payson. Basin Yellow Cryptantha (Oth)

Plagiobothrys kingii (S. Watson) A. Gray harknessii (Greene) Jepson. Harkness' Popcornflower (Oth)

Chenopodiaceae

Atriplex canescens (Pursh) Nutt. canescens. Four-wing Saltbush (Oth)

Fabaceae

Astragalus canadensis L. brevidens (Gand.) Barneby. Short-Tooth Canadian Milkvetch (Oth)

Loasaceae

Mentzelia torreyi A. Gray. Torrey's Blazing Star (TAS+Oth)

Onagraceae

Eremothera boothii (Douglas) W. L. Wagner & Hoch boothii. Booth's Evening Primrose (Oth)

Polemoniaceae

Eriastrum wilcoxii (A. Nelson) H. Mason. Wilcox's Woollystar (TAS)

Polygonaceae

Eriogonum ampullaceum J. T. Howell. Mono Buckwheat (Oth)

Eriogonum maculatum A. Heller. Spotted Buckwheat (Oth)

Rubiaceae

Galium multiflorum Kellogg. Many-Flower Bedstraw (Oth)

Poaceae

Poa secunda J. Presl juncifolia (Scribn.) Soreng. Sandberg Bluegrass. (Oth)

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Date and time this article was prepared:8:31:30 PM, 4/21/2025.