Looking southeast, this view shows the west end of Camelback Mountain, from the summit of Squaw Peak in the Phoenix Mountains Preserve.  In the foreground are rocks.  Visible across the residential areas in the valley (parts of Phoenix and Paradise Valley) are reddish rocks that form a number of scenic sheer cliffs.  These in turn sit on a larger mass of Precambrian , which forms the summit of Camelback Mountain, just behind them.  The contact between the two formations represents over 1 billion years of missing time!
   Camelback Mountain is technically part of the ; the whole range is a typical set of mountains.
 
   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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