Mitten Rock

{{Short description|Mountain in New Mexico, United States}}

{{Infobox mountain

|name = Mitten Rock

|photo = Mitten Rock (Navajo Volcanic Field, northwestern New Mexico, USA).jpg

|photo_caption = Northeast aspect

|elevation_ft = 6557

|elevation_ref = {{cite web|url=https://listsofjohn.com/peak/14639|title=Mitten Rock - 6,557' NM|website=listsofjohn.com|accessdate=2020-12-02}}

|prominence_ft = 807

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|isolation_mi = 5.37

|isolation_ref =

|parent_peak = White Rock (6,634 ft)[https://peakvisor.com/peak/mitten-rock.html Mitten Rock, Peakvisor.com, retrieved December 2, 2020]

|range = Chuska Mountains[https://peakvisor.com/peak/mitten-rock.html Mitten Rock, Peakvisor.com, retrieved December 2, 2020]
Colorado Plateau

|location = San Juan County, New Mexico, US

|map = New Mexico#USA

|map_caption = Location in New Mexico

|map_size = 230

|coordinates = {{coord|36|36|33|N|108|56|40|W|type:mountain_region:US-NM_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|coordinates_ref = {{cite gnis|id=897412|name=Mitten Rock|accessdate=2020-12-02}}

|topo = USGS Mitten Rock

|type = Volcanic plug

|rock = Volcanic breccia

|age = Oligocene

|first_ascent =

|easiest_route =

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Mitten Rock is a {{convert|6,557|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us|adj=on}} elevation summit located on Navajo Nation land in San Juan County of northwest New Mexico, United States. Mitten Rock is set in the northeastern part of the Navajo Volcanic Field, a volcanic field that includes intrusions and flows of minette and other unusual igneous rocks which formed around 30 million years ago during the Oligocene.Steven C. Semken, The Navajo Volcanic Field, in Volcanology in New Mexico, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Bulletin 18, p. 79, 2001. {{ISSN|1524-4156}} Mitten Rock is one of the major diatremes of the Four Corners area, and with significant relief as it rises {{convert|900|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} above the high-desert plain.Robert Julyan, The Mountains of New Mexico, 2006, University of New Mexico Press, page 109. It is situated about {{convert|8.5|mi}} southwest of Shiprock, the most famous of these diatremes. Mitten Rock has also been known as "Little Ship Rock." This landmark is called Tséłkǫ, meaning "Rock Is Fire" in the Navajo language.[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/200578709_An_Introduction_to_Navajo_Sacred_Places Stephen C. Jett and Editha L. Watson, Sacred Places of the Navajo, 1993.] This geographical feature's descriptive name was applied by the US Army in 1892, and was officially adopted in 1915 by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names. Precipitation runoff from this feature drains into Little Shiprock Wash, which is part of the San Juan River drainage basin. According to the Köppen climate classification system, Mitten Rock is located in a semi-arid climate zone with cold winters and hot summers.{{cite journal| author = Peel, M. C. |author2=Finlayson, B. L. |author3=McMahon, T. A. | year = 2007 | title = Updated world map of the Köppen−Geiger climate classification | journal = Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. | volume = 11 |issue=5 |page=1633 |doi=10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 |bibcode=2007HESS...11.1633P |s2cid=9654551 | issn = 1027-5606|doi-access=free }}