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Thermal Pools along Hot Creek
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1009 0956 (2009-10-11)Copyright © 2009 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Oct 10, 2009
location
Hot Creek Geologic Site. Inyo National Forest (Mono County, California, US)notes This area sits in the middle of the Long Valley Caldera, a volcanically active region around Mammoth Lakes. Ground water heated by a volcanic body beneath the area rises to the surface through a fault-controlled system of fractures in the rock along this stretch of the creek to create these boiling pools.keywords: volcano, volcanism, magma, geothermal, hydrothermal, caldera, fault, earth science, geology
camera Canon 40D, 275mm, f/13, 1/1000 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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