Three Dike Hill is a summit in Presidio County, Texas, United States.
Description Three Dike Hill is a butte set in Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chihuahuan Desert. The top of the butte is a caprock of basalt with three dark dikes of basalt rising up through layers of tuff and sedimentary rock.Holy Smoke! Texas Has Actual Volcanoes. Here’s Where to See Ten of Them., Amy Weaver Dorning, Texas Monthly, June 17, 2021. Charles Christopher Parry accurately sketched this geological formation on August 26, 1852, during the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.From Presidio to the Pecos River: Surveying the United States–Mexico Boundary along the Rio Grande, 1852 and 1853, Orville B. Shelburne, University of Oklahoma Press, 2020, , p. 46. Based on the Köppen climate classification, the mountain is located in a hot arid climate zone with hot summers and mild winters. Any scant precipitation runoff from the peak's slopes drains to the Rio Grande which is to the south. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises over above the river in three-quarters mile (1.2 km) and above Tapado Canyon in one-half mile (0.8 km). The mountain's toponym has not been officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names.
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See also Geography of Texas Leyva Canyon Volcano
References
External links Three Dike Hill (photo): Flickr Three Dike Hill weather: National Weather Service