Zeller Peak Explained

Zeller Peak
Elevation Ft:7426
Elevation Ref:[1]
Prominence Ft:746
Prominence Ref:[2]
Isolation Mi:1.91
Isolation Ref:[3]
Parent Peak:Big Hatchet Peak (8,359 ft)
Etymology:Robert Allen Zeller
Map:New Mexico#USA
Label Position:top
Map Size:240
Location:Big Hatchet Mountains Wilderness Study Area
Country:United States of America
State:New Mexico
Region:Hidalgo
Region Type:County
Coordinates:31.6632°N -108.397°W
Coordinates Ref:[4]
Range:Big Hatchet Mountains
Rock:Limestone
Age:Paleozoic
Type:Fault block
Topo:USGS Big Hatchet Peak

Zeller Peak is a 7426adj=midNaNadj=mid mountain summit located in Hidalgo County, New Mexico, United States.

Description

Zeller Peak is located at the northern end of the Big Hatchet Mountains which are set in the New Mexico Bootheel. It is set within the Big Hatchet Mountains Wilderness Study Area, on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. The remote mountain is situated 70 miles southwest of the town of Deming, two miles north of Big Hatchet Peak, and can be seen from Highway 81. Topographic relief is significant as the summit rises 2400abbr=offNaNabbr=off above the Playas Valley in one mile, and 2000abbr=offNaNabbr=off above the Hachita Valley in one-half mile.

Etymology

This landform's toponym was officially adopted by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1979 to honor Dr. Robert A. Zeller Jr. (1921–1970).[5] Zeller was a geologist and naturalist who spent more than 10 years studying the geology of the Big Hatchet Mountains,[5] and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation about these mountains.[6] Following his death in an airplane crash in Arizona, he was remembered as one of the most able geologists to ever live and work in the state of New Mexico.[7]

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Notes and References

  1. United States Geological Survey topographical map - Big Hatchet Peak
  2. 73359. Zeller Peak, New Mexico. 2022-09-06.
  3. Web site: Zeller Peak - 7,426' NM. listsofjohn.com. 2022-09-06.
  4. 897567. Zeller Peak. 2022-09-06.
  5. United States Board on Geographic Names (1979), Decisions on Names in the United States, Decision List 7903, Department of the Interior, p. 16
  6. Robert Julyan (2006), The Mountains of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press,, p. 261
  7. Robert Julyan (1996), The Place Names of New Mexico, University of New Mexico Press,, p. 384