Draft:Mount Cima

Mount Cima
The Mount Cima is a Granite Mountain located in The Sierra Nevada. With a summit reaching 11,863 ft (3,616 m).

Geography
Mount Cima is located in the South Sierra Nevada and is close to many famous Mountain peaks like Mount Whitney and Mount Cima is located in Tulare County In Northern California. Mount Cima is also located 38 Miles East of The San Joaquin Valley and is only 23 Miles West Of Owens Valley In Inyo County

Major Cities Nearby
Mount Cima is spaced out from Major Cities with the closest one being Fresno, California 77 miles away barely beating Bakersfield, California 84 miles away and only being 165 Miles North of the famous Los Angeles, California With Vegas in the East being 185 Miles and are about 200 miles from Northern California's San Francisco and Sacramento.

Geology
Cimas formed because the Sierra Nevada is the result of a fault block that is analogous to a cellar door: the door is hinged on the west and is slowly rising on the east.The rise is caused by a fault system that runs along the Sierra's eastern base, below Mount Whitney. Thus, the granite that forms Whitney is the same as that which forms the Alabama Hills, thousands of feet lower down. The raising of Whitney (and the downdrop of the Owens Valley) is due to the same geological forces that cause the Basin and Range Province: the crust of much of the intermontane west is slowly being stretched. The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith. In Cretaceous time, masses of molten rock that originated from subduction rose underneath what is now Whitney and solidified underground to form large expanses of granite. In the last 2 to 10 million years, the Sierra was pushed up, enabling glacial and river erosion to strip the upper layers of rock to reveal the resistant granite that makes up Mount Whitney today.

Climate
Mount Cima has a alpine tundra climate Köppen: ET.Summer temperatures are highly variable, ranging from below freezing (32 F) to highs near 80 F during extreme heat waves