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Squeeze-ups on a Lava Flow
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1010 0169 (2010-10-03)Copyright © 2010 Ron Wolf
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INFORMATION PROVIDED WITH THE PHOTO
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date of photo Sep 7, 2010
location
Craters of the Moon National Monument (Butte County, Idaho, US)habitat desertnotes These features form when the pressure of molten lava flowing beneath a cooler solid crust is sufficient to crack the hard suface and produce a small extrusion of fresh lava. This flow originated from North Crater about 2,200 years ago.keywords: geology, earth science, basalt, Holocene, Quaternary, Cenozoic, eruption, volcano, volcanism
camera Canon 40D, 24mm, f/8, 1/100 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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