A Slice of Local Geology
Ubehebe Crater near Death Valley, created by a volcanic steam explosion, offers an unusual look at the local geology by creating a natural cross-section of the subsurface. Towards the center of the image, the shifted layers reveal recent earthquake activity that has also created a fault scarp at the rim of the crater.
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Location
- North America (751)
- Northern America (588)
- United States of America (391)
- Exact location (-117.4544 W, 37.0082 N)
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- fault (26)
- crater (22)
- earthquake (22)
- desert (48)
- geology (59)
- layers (7)
- death valley (6)
- volcanism (12)
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5007 × 3338 px;
image/jpeg; 3.8 MB
Camera:
Canon EOS 600D
Taken on 28
May
2017
Submitted on 30 January 2018
Licence
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
Credit
Tobias Keller (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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