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Little Blitzen River : ウィキペディア英語版 | Little Blitzen River
Little Blitzen River is a tributary of the Donner und Blitzen River in the U.S. state of Oregon.〔〔 Little Blitzen River rises on the west flank of Steens Mountain about southeast of Frenchglen and about south of Burns in Harney County.〔〔 Flowing west in a steep-walled canyon, it joins the South Fork Donner und Blitzen River〔The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) includes the South Fork in its definition of the main stem Donner und Blitzen River. It places the main stem's source at rather than at the mouth of the Little Blitzen.〕 at to form the Donner und Blitzen main stem, which continues north about another to its mouth at in Malheur Lake.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = TopoQuest )〕 The Donner und Blitzen River was named by soldiers of German origin and translates as "thunder and lightning". Little Blitzen River brings to mind one of Santa Claus's reindeer.〔 As part of the Omnibus Oregon Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1988, Congress designated "the 12.5-mile segment of the Little Blitzen from its headwaters to its confluence with the South Fork Blitzen" as Wild and Scenic.〔 It is part of the nation's first Great Basin redband trout reserve, established by Congress in 2000.〔〔 The Redband Trout Reserve section of the report appears on page RMP-39.〕 The American Hiking Society has listed Little Blitzen Gorge Trail among its 10 "hidden gems".〔 ==Geology== Little Blitzen Gorge, down which the river flows, is one of four huge U-shaped trenches carved by ice on the western face of Steens Mountain during the most recent glacial period.〔 The mountain, long, is the largest fault-block mountain in the northern Great Basin.〔 Although its eastern face is almost vertical, its western face slopes more gradually.〔 Cut through basalt, the western canyons are up to deep.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = Bureau of Land Management )〕 Little Blitzen River begins at about above sea level near the top of the mountain and loses about in elevation between source and mouth.〔〔
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