Mount Diablo is a mountain of the Diablo Range, in Contra Costa County of the eastern San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California.
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17 Facts About Mount Diablo
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Mount Diablo appears from many angles to be a double pyramid and has many subsidiary peaks.
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Countless peaks in the state are taller, but Mount Diablo has a remarkable visual prominence for a mountain of such low elevation.
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Additionally, he claimed that Mount Diablo is a living person, and so is banned under federal law.
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Mount Diablo suggested renaming the mountain Mount Kawukum, and later, Mount Yahweh.
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An aerial navigation beacon, the Standard Mount Diablo tower, was erected by Standard Oil at the summit in 1928.
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Mount Diablo was used for broadcasting purposes in the 1950s by radio station KSBR-FM and television station KOVR .
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The Mount Diablo site gave KOVR, which was based in Stockton, regional coverage that included San Francisco and Sacramento.
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Mount Diablo is a geologic anomaly about 30 miles east of San Francisco.
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Summit area of Mount Diablo is made up of deposits of gray sandstone, graywacke, chert, oceanic volcanic basalts and a minor amount of shale.
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In 2005 the endangered species Mount Diablo buckwheat, thought to be extinct since last seen in 1936, was rediscovered in a remote area of the mountain.
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Nearby Bay Area mountains, like Mount Diablo Hamilton, have their weather stations at or near the summit.
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In modern times Mount Diablo art has been most strongly represented in plein aire painting, especially the group Artists for Action, and photography.
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Mount Diablo broke the 44 minutes, 58 seconds record, set in 2004 by former professional cyclist Greg Drake of Redwood City, California.
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Mount Diablo has long been the site of numerous reports pertaining to cryptozoology, hauntings, mysterious lights, and various other Fortean phenomena .
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