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Ubehebe Craters

Maar · United States · 752 m

Ubehebe craters are an isolated group of maar volcanoes erupted through nonvolcanic sediments of Death Valley National Park. The craters were formed by hydrovolcanic explosions along a fault. The contact between pre-eruption yellowish- and orange-colored sedimentary rocks and overlying black ash deposits from an early stage scoria cone can be seen at the upper part of the western wall of 800-m wide, 235-m deep Ubehebe crater, the youngest and largest crater.
Ubehebe craters are an isolated group of maar volcanoes erupted through nonvolcanic sediments of Death Valley National Park. The craters were formed by hydrovolcanic explosions along a fault. The contact between pre-eruption yellowish- and orange-colored sedimentary rocks and overlying black ash deposits from an early stage scoria cone can be seen at the upper part of the western wall of 800-m wide, 235-m deep Ubehebe crater, the youngest and largest crater. · Foto: Photo by Lee Siebert, 1974 (Smithsonian Institution). · Wikimedia Commons
Tipo
Maar
Paese
United States
Regione
Nord America / Basin and Range Volcanic Province
Altitudine
752 m
Coordinate
37.020, -117.450
Ultima eruzione
-150
Contesto tettonico
Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Forma vulcanica
Minor
Roccia principale
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Sintesi geologica

The Ubehebe Craters (pronounced you-bee-HEE-bee) consist of an isolated group of overlapping maars formed during eruptions of alkali basalt along a fault cutting alluvial fan deposits on the flanks of Tin Mountain in Death Valley National Park. Ubehebe Crater is a 0.8-km-wide, 235-m-deep maar surrounded by a tuff ring. Little Hebe Crater, the second youngest vent located immediately south, is a small tuff cone with a 100-m-wide crater overlain by pyroclastic-surge deposits. At least a dozen craters are located within an area of 3 km2, and bedded pyroclastic-surge deposits cover an area of 15 km2. Early scoria cone formation was followed by hydrovolcanic explosions that formed two clusters of explosion craters and tuff rings. Field work and revised dating (Calzia et al., 2016; Fierstein et al., 2016) based on paleomagnetic and 10Be evidence has shown that the craters were formed during a single short-lived phreatic, phreatomagmatic, and magmatic eruptive episode about 2,100 years ago.

Storia delle eruzioni

Riepilogo (VEI nel tempo)
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150 BCE~150 BCE · 1 eruzioni · VEI max. ?150 BCE150 BCE149 BCE149 BCE149 BCE

Cronologia dettagliata

  1. 150 a.C.VEI ?Stima geologica
    BCE 150 – In corso

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