KAWICH RANGE. 
rhese hills show a total thickness of 100 feet oi well-stratified 
lay, to be correlated with similar playa deposit- of the older allu- 
vium in the Stonewall Flat. Presumably this playa deposit and 
ts associated alluvial slope deposits underlie the Recent gravels of 
xold Flat at no considerable depth. 
KAWICH RANGE. 
TOPOGRAPHY AND GEOGRAPHY. 
The Kawich Range was named after Chief Kawich, an Indian 
dio lived at the spring at the head of Breen Creek. The range is 
southward continuation of the Hot Creek Range, from which it 
3 separated by a narrow transverse valley." From this gap it 
xtencls 50 miles southward to a point where it sinks beneath the lava 
lows of Pahute Mesa. The range has a well-developed crest line 
nth north-south trend. It is deeply indented by valleys at Rose 
pring and at Kawich, while 8 miles north of Kawich the Recent 
lluvial deposits completely arch the range. 
In the rugged northern part of the range the sinuous crest line 
in many places a knife-edge flanked by high cliffs; south of Rose 
pring the topography is much less rugged. From the main crest 
ne subordinate divides of similar character extend at right angles, 
he crest line at the north edge of the area mapped has an elevation 
f 9,000 feet, while in the south end of the range it rarely rises 
bove 7,000 feet. Kawich Peak, with an elevation of 0,500 feet, is 
le highest summit. ' Quartzite Mountain, a beautiful symmetrical 
pme southwest of the village of Kawich, is 7,000 feet high. 
The Kawich Range is intensely dissected by many stream channels, 
he drainage line of Little Mill Canyon, which alone is abnormal, 
>urses east 2 miles, bends sharply to the north, and 1 mile below 
pin turns at right angles and resumes its easterlv course to the 
jeveille Valley. A low divide separates the first segment of the 
ream from a prominent east-west valley in alignment with it south 
| the mountain southwest of the town of Eden, and it is probable 
at Little Mill Creek has captured the upper part of its valley. 
On the crest line, near the northern boundary of the region shown 
the map, are areas of an older and more mature mountain topog- 
phy. with gentle slopes, in strong contrast with the rugged charac- 
: of the surrounding ridges and cliffs. IDxposures of rock are few 
id nowhere conspicuous; the surface is covered with soil and sup- 
Irts some grass. This old topography is in advanced maturity or in 
Ol age, but the hills existing on its rolling surface arc too numerous 
t call it a peneplain. Remnants of a similar surface are preserved 
i the P>elted, Amargosa, and Panamint ranges, and in the Panamint 
Spurr, J. E., Bull. U. S. Geol. Survey No. 208, 1003. p. 181. 
