Yakima Ridge

Yakima Ridge

Yakima Ridge is a long anticline mountain ridge in Yakima County and Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. From its western end just north of the city of Yakima, the ridge runs east-southeast through the Yakima Training Center to its eastern end at Hanford Reach National Monument and the Hanford Site. Yakima Ridge is paralleled on the north by Umtanum Ridge and on the south by the Rattlesnake Hills. Moxee Valley and Black Rock Valley lie south of Yakima Ridge. The ridge's highest point is convert|4184|ft|m. [ [http://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=17311 Yakima Ridge High Point, Washington] , Peakbagger.com]

Yakima Ridge is part of the Yakima Fold Belt of east-tending long ridges formed by the folding of Miocene Columbia River basalt flows. [ [http://gldims.cr.usgs.gov/webapps/cfusion/Sites/qfault/qf_web_disp.cfm?disp_cd=C&qfault_or=1327&ims_cf_cd=cf Complete Report for Saddle Mountains structures] , USGS Earthquake Hazards Program]

ee also

*Ahtanum Ridge
*Horse Heaven Hills
*Umtanum Ridge Water Gap

References

External links

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* [http://www.rattlesnakehills.com/geography.htm Geography of the Yakima Valley] , Rattlesnake Hills


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