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Diana's Punchbowl is a vase-shaped depression located along a small fault in the Nevada desert.

It is also called the Devil's Cauldron.


There is a geothermal pool about 30 feet down, and it runs around 180-200 degrees.

Over thousands of years, mineral-rich groundwater rose out of the fault line, creating a travertine hill with this crater in the center.

Nye County is one of the most seismically active regions in the state, situated in a geologically deforming zone known as Walker Lane.  It accommodates 25% of the shear motion between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates.

 

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