Looking directly west from North Mountain, across the Glendale and Sun City areas, the White Tank Mountains (a ) are just visible in the afternoon glare.  You can look back from them to where this picture was taken, for the reverse view.
   The Phoenix area has not always been desert.  Buried underneath this flat valley floor is an estimated 15 cubic miles (yes, miles) of salt, left behind after the evaporation of a large lake which existed here during the .
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   See the GeoHistory page if you want to know more about why the landscape looks the way it does, or return to the map of "The Rocks of the Valley of the Sun" for more view locations.
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