#45 - Mount Borah
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Volcanoguy
N 44° 08.408 W 113° 54.285
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Idaho History Sign #45 about Mount Borah.
Waymark Code: WMC56E
Location: Idaho, United States
Date Posted: 07/26/2011
Views: 5
One of two Idaho History Signs located just west of the junction of Double Springs Pass Road with U.S. Hwy. 93. The subject of the sign is Mount Borah which is visible to the northeast.
Marker Name: Mount Borah
Marker Type: Roadside
Marker Text:
Idaho’s highest peak, 12,662 feet, is named for William E. Borah, who served in the United States Senate from 1907 until his death in 1940.
Ten or a dozen large but shallow inland seas have covered this area in the past billion years. They became a graveyard for countless generations of sea creatures: bones, shells, coral, and microscopic remains piled up through the eons into a clay-and limestone deposit thousands of feet thick. During the past 10 or 20 million years, part of this deposit has been thrust upward into the towering ridge which you see before your.
County: Custer
Group Responsible for Placement: State of Idaho
Marker Number: 45
City: Not listed
Date Dedicated: Not listed
Web link(s) for additional information: Not listed
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