In California's Death Valley, death is looking just a bit closer. Geologists have determined that the half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater, formed by a prehistoric volcanic explosion, was created far ...

Ubehebe's explosion was caused when an upwelling plume of hot volcanic magma from deep ... which is 24 miles southwest of the crater. How the name Ubehebe became associated with the ...

A mile and a half wide (2.4 kilometers) and 600 feet (180 meters) deep, California's Ubehebe Crater came explosively into being long ago when rising magma hit water. (Video: Volcanoes 101.) The ...

Yet new evidence uncovered by a team of scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory suggests the dramatic crater, called Ubehebe, last erupted only 800 hundred years ago.

It's the Ubehebe Crater, which sits in the northern region of Death Valley. The mile-and-a-half-wide, 600-foot-deep crater was thought to have come "explosively into being" some 10,000 years ago ...

Nature - Explosion in Death Valley. The volcanic eruption responsible for the giant Ubehebe Crater in California's Death Valley may have occurred more recently than previously thought.

Death Valley's half-mile-wide Ubehebe Crater turns out to have been created 800 years ago - more recently than generally thought; Credit: Brent Goehring/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Holding out ...

California's Death Valley, already one of the hottest places on Earth, may have the potential to get a whole lot hotter — and live up to its name in a surprising (and possibly scary) new way ...

Death Valley's Ubehebe crater erupted hundreds of years ago rather than thousands, according to a new study, but that doesn't mean it's likely to blow again anytime soon. Eruptions blogger and ...