Pearl Peak
{{Short description|Peak in Ruby Mountains, Nevada, USA}}
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| location = Elko County, Nevada
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| range = Ruby Mountains
| coordinates = {{coord|40|14|07|N|115|32|31|W}}
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Pearl Peak is a {{convert|10777|ft|m|adj=on}} summit in the southern part of the Ruby Mountains, in Elko County, Nevada in the United States. The peak, which is within the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, is primarily composed of Ordovician to early Devonian dolomite and limestone, with minor amounts of sandstone and quartzite.{{cite web |url=https://gisweb.unr.edu/NevadaGeology/ |title=Nevada Geology |website=Nevada Geology |publisher=The University of Nevada, Reno |accessdate=15 June 2020}} It hosts a stand of bristlecone pine.{{cite book |last1=Charlet |first1=David Alan |title=Atlas of Nevada Conifers |date=1996 |publisher=University of Nevada Press |location=Reno |page=228}}
Pearl Peak is about {{convert|40|mi|km}} south of Elko and {{convert|50|mi|km}} north of Eureka. The Ruby Lake National Wildlife Refuge is located a short distance to the southeast.
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Category:Mountains of Elko County, Nevada
Category:Three-thousanders of the United States
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