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The crater is half a mile (one kilometer) wide and 500 to 777 feet (152 to 237 m) deep. The age of the crater is estimated from 2,000 to 7,000 years old. [1] In 2012, new evidence suggested that the crater may be as young as 800 years old, although this estimation was a lower bound, and it is still possible the crater is much older than that.
Death Valley National Park. The Ubehebe Craters are a volcanic field in the northern Death Valley of California, consisting of 14–16 craters in a 3-square-kilometre (1.2 sq mi) area. The largest of the craters is the 800 metres (2,600 ft) wide and 235 metres (771 ft) deep Ubehebe Crater. Many of the craters, though, are partially buried and ...
One example of such a feature is the roughly 2000-year-old and 800 feet (240 m) deep Ubehebe Crater in the northern part of the park; [28] nearby smaller craters may be less than 200 to 300 years old. [29] Sediment filled the subsiding Furnace Creek Basin as the area was pulled apart by Basin and Range extension.
The eye-opening 600-foot (183-meter) Ubehebe Crater dates back over 2,000 years. And Zabriskie Point is a prime sunrise viewing spot. Eugen Chen from Taiwan called the park “beautiful” and an ...
There are scatterings of wildflowers in Panamint Valley and Ubehebe Crater, the NPS reports, but no major blooms have been sighted yet. Typical wildflower season is late February through mid-April ...
Ubehebe Peak has an elevation of 5,678 ft. The mountain resides between Saline Valley, which lies to the west, and the Cottonwood Mountains range, to the east. Ubehebe Peak is the southernmost major summit of the Last Chance Range. Geology. The foundation of Ubehebe Peak is primarily formed of quartz monzonite, as well as syenite.
Mount Shasta (/ ˈʃæstə / SHASS-tə; Shasta: Waka-nunee-Tuki-wuki; [5] Karuk: Úytaahkoo) [6] is a potentially active [7] volcano at the southern end of the Cascade Range in Siskiyou County, California. At an elevation of 14,179 ft (4,322 m), it is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the state.
The highest point surrounding the Racetrack is the 5,678-foot (1,731 m) high Ubehebe Peak, rising 1,964 feet (599 m) above the lakebed 0.85 miles (1.37 km) to the west. [ citation needed ] The playa is in the small Racetrack Valley endorheic basin between the Cottonwood Mountains on the east and Nelson Range to the west.