Devils Hole 2

3D Model

Devils Hole 2 is a gated cave near Devils Hole proper, located in the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Nevada, and is part of the Death Valley National Park. Its dry part is 39 m deep while the subaqueous part below extends beyond 150 of water depth. This cave and the neighboring Devils Hole proper cave have been the focus of scientific research for many years, because mineral deposits on the walls of these desert caves preserved unequivocal traces of rises and falls of the groundwater level over hundreds of thousands of years. See also https://www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/dossiers/devilshole/.

The 8220 images on which this 3D model is based were acquired in February 2018 by D. Brandner, Yuri Dublyansky, Gabriella Koltai and Christoph Spötl. SFM model by D. Brandner.

Photographs by Robbie Shone

Human figure by [Alexander Lee]

Text by Kathleen Wendt

This work was supported by the National Park Service, the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Science Fund.