Gold Butte, Nevada

Gold Butte is the name of a ghost town and nearby mountain peak in Clark County, Nevada.

This peak lies within the Virgin Mountains and its name apparently refers to the Gold Butte Mining District.

Together, these plutonic, metamorphic, and sedimentary strata comprise a fault-bounded segment of crust known as the Gold Butte Block.

The landscapes, of which Gold Butte is a part, within Gold Butte block represents the deeply eroded footwall of a Miocene detachment fault that provides a continuous outcrop of a section of the upper Earth's crust that is approximately 24 to 25 kilometers (15 to 16 mi) thick.

Thus, Gold Butte lies near the base of possibly the longest continuously exposed section of the Earth's crust in the southwestern United States.

This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Clark County. Gold Butte is the name for both a mountain peak and nearby ghost town in the eastern hook of Clark County.
Clark County map