Map coordinates:
39.0303, -116.666
Water temperature:
140.9°F
Site ID:
nv_dpb
Diana's Punch Bowl & Pott's Ranch. Image courtesy of the Nevada Commission on Tourism.
Dianas Punch Bowl (Dianna's, Devils) (Sec. 22, T14N, R47E) is a cup-shaped depression about 15 m in diameter at the top of a domelike hill of travertine about 183 m in diameter. Warm water in the pool of the bowl is about 9 m below the rim, while the top of the hill is about 23 m above the level of Monitor Valley.
A small warm spring, about 43-49°C in temperature, issues from the southwest corner of the travertine dome (Fiero, 1968). Temperatures up to 59°C have been reported, and the estimated minimum reservoir temperature by several chemical geothermometers is 88-97.7°C (Mariner and others, 1974; Hose and Taylor, 1974).
Very slightly anomalous radioactivity (16 μR/hr) is reported by Wollenberg (1974b). The thermal area lies on a north-trending, concealed fault in the central part of Monitor Valley (Stewart and Carlson, 1974; Fiero, 1968). Spurr (1905, p. 257) describes a report by J.L. Butler that the water level had lowered and water became cooler in the years prior to 1905. Also, he reported that more gas was formerly emitted and occasional flames were seen.
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All snakes can swim.... but not in scalding mineral water! This one suffered a rather quick fate and is now being calcified into the streambed. Traveling north towards Cherry Creek, Nevada, along the old shelf road on the west side of Steptoe Valley, Monte Neva Hot Springs bubbles up out of the ground at about 175°F. Image courtesy of Matt Bowers / Third Media.
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Facilitating research, management and interpretation of caves and karst resources; Forming partnerships to study, protect and preserve cave resources and karst areas; Promoting the long term conservation of caves and karst ecosystems.
Burrowed in the Toquima Range in the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Toquima Cave holds massive cultural importance to Native Americans. This sacred site was utilized by the Western Shoshone tribes as a temporary dwelling between 3,000 and 1,500 years ago.
A large number of pictographs adorn the north and south walls of the cave. As one of many pictograph sites in Nevada, Toquima Cave and the surrounding 40 acres were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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