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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 ...
Ubehebe Crater is the largest of more than a dozen of in the Ubehebe Craters field. As groundwater exploded into steam due to the heat of magma underneath, an empty pit was left behind and the debris spread around the field. Erosion over the millennia since the eruption revealed multi-colored stripes on the crater walls dating to the Miocene ...
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.
The name "Ubehebe" (pronounced YOO-bee-HEE-bee), which is shared by the nearby Ubehebe Crater, was likely given by the Paiute Tribe that resides in the Inyo County region. [3] Although there is a popular misconception that the name "Ubehebe" means "big basket," the word likely originated from the Paiute term "hïbi-bici," which translates to ...
Coordinates: 36°45′37″N 117°32′33″W. In 2008. Teakettle Junction in December 2011. Teakettle Junction is a road junction in Inyo County, California. [1][2] It lies at an elevation of 4,150 feet (1,260 m) in Death Valley near the Racetrack Playa and Ubehebe Crater. At the junction where the unimproved road from Ubehebe Crater meets ...
A map of East Africa showing some of the historically active volcanoes (as red triangles) and the Afar Triangle (shaded at the center), which is a so-called triple junction (or triple point) where three plates are pulling away from one another: the Arabian plate and two parts of the African plate—the Nubian and Somali—splitting along the East African Rift Zone Main rift faults, plates ...
Ubehebe Crater is located at the north tip of the Cottonwood Mountains. The crater is half a mile (one kilometer) wide and 500 to 777 feet (150 to 237 m) deep. The age of the crater is estimated from 2,000 to 7,000 years old. Date: 14 January 2007, 14:39:35: Source: originally posted to Flickr as Ubehebe Crater, Death Valley, CA: Author: Jim ...