Yakima Ridge
| Yakima Ridge | ||
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| height | 1279 m (Sea Level Date of 1929) | |
| location | Benton County / Yakima County , Washington , USA | |
| Mountains | Cascade chain | |
| Notch height | 373 m | |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 35 '25 " N , 120 ° 4' 39" W | |
| Topo map | USGS Black Rock Spring | |
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The Yakima Ridge is a long anticlinal mountain ridge in the counties of Yakima and Benton in the US state of Washington . From its west end north of the city of Yakima it runs east-southeast through the Yakima Research Station to its west end at Hanford Reach National Monument and the Hanford Site . The Yakima Ridge runs parallel to the northern Umtanum Ridge and the southern Rattlesnake Hills . The Moxee Valley and Black Rock Valley lie south of the Yakima Ridge.
The Yakima Ridge is part of the Yakima Fold Belt , eastward long mountain ridges that were formed by the folding of the Columbia River Basalt Group in the Miocene .
The Yakima River dug a breakthrough valley through the Yakima Ridge with the Selah Gap . There are other breakthroughs in other locations such as the Umtanum Ridge Water Gap and Union Gap on the Ahtanum Ridge.
Individual evidence
- ^ Coffin . National Geodetic Survey. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- ↑ Complete Report for Saddle Mountains structures, Saddle Mountains fault (database search) USGS Earthquake Hazards Program. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved June 8, 2011.
Web links
- Yakima Ridge ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved June 8, 2011.
- Rattlesnake Hills . Yakima Valley Wines. Retrieved June 8, 2011. - On the geography of the Yakima Valley
- Yakima Ridge High Point, Washington . PeakBagger.com. Retrieved June 8, 2011.