Phoenix Mountains

   Even many Phoenicians don't know that the mountain range which divides the city into northern and southern parts has a name.  Shaw Butte, North Mountain, Squaw Peak, Mummy Mountain, and Camelback Mountain are all peaks within the Phoenix Mountains.
   It is a typical Basin and Range type mountain range, with steeply dipping faults (now probably non-active) on each side.  If one could take away the valley fill material on each side, the mountains would appear to be thousands of feet higher.  What we see now are analogous to the tips of icebergs, sticking up out of ocean water.  The bulk of these jagged peaks is below the flat valley floors.

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