What is the name of the rock that underlies the Great Valley?
What is the name of the mountain in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve?
What was the Cube used for?
How tall is Mount Umunhum?
Who are the Amah Mutsun tribe?
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Mt. Umunhum Radar Tower Declared Historic Landmark
The tower may be qualified to become a landmark because it is more than 50 years old, has "historical integrity" and has associations with the Cold War, according to county officials.
Radar tower restoration: Bay Area landmark serves as reminder of US ...
With its radar antenna on top, the tower was used starting in 1958 to watch for the approach of Soviet bombers during the Cold War-era following World War II.
What is the name of the rock that underlies the Great Valley?
Umunhum and extensive outcrop areas throughout the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills and elsewhere. The Coast Range Ophiolite is also known to underlie the rocks of the Great Valley throughout central California.
What is the name of the mountain in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve?
Most of the mountain is within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve . Mt. Umunhum consists of a geologic formation that is known as the Coast Range Ophiolite. This ophiolite is a piece of Middle Jurassic oceanic crust and mantle that has been obducted onto land and largely been converted to serpentinite.
What was the Cube used for?
The Cube, which housed an 85.5-ton AN/FPS-24 radar, was completed in 1962 and used to watch for hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Its signal caused electronic interference in many radio, TV and sound systems within its 250-mile range on each rotation.
How tall is Mount Umunhum?
The mountain is topped by an eight and a half story (84.5 feet tall) concrete radar tower (5 floors interior), known locally as "the Cube" or "the Box".
Who are the Amah Mutsun tribe?
In 2017, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District granted an easement to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, descendants of the Ohlone Native American People who inhabited the region before it was settled by Europeans. The easement authorizes the band to build a garden and hold ceremonies on the mountaintop.
What is the name of the rock that underlies the Great Valley?
Umunhum and extensive outcrop areas throughout the Santa Cruz Mountain foothills and elsewhere. The Coast Range Ophiolite is also known to underlie the rocks of the Great Valley throughout central California.
What is the name of the mountain in the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve?
Most of the mountain is within the Sierra Azul Open Space Preserve . Mt. Umunhum consists of a geologic formation that is known as the Coast Range Ophiolite. This ophiolite is a piece of Middle Jurassic oceanic crust and mantle that has been obducted onto land and largely been converted to serpentinite.
What was the Cube used for?
The Cube, which housed an 85.5-ton AN/FPS-24 radar, was completed in 1962 and used to watch for hostile aircraft during the Cold War. Its signal caused electronic interference in many radio, TV and sound systems within its 250-mile range on each rotation.
How tall is Mount Umunhum?
The mountain is topped by an eight and a half story (84.5 feet tall) concrete radar tower (5 floors interior), known locally as "the Cube" or "the Box".
Who are the Amah Mutsun tribe?
In 2017, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District granted an easement to the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, descendants of the Ohlone Native American People who inhabited the region before it was settled by Europeans. The easement authorizes the band to build a garden and hold ceremonies on the mountaintop.
