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Rafted Blocks of Crater Wall / Craters of the Moon National Monument
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1010 0231 (2010-10-04)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 The large blocks of basalt sitting atop this flow were torn loose from the wall of North Crater during an eruption about 2,200 years ago. Lava rising within the crater breached the wall and poured down the side of the structure, carrying these blocks with it like rafts on a river.keywords: geology, earth science, Holocene, Quaternary, Cenozoic, basalt, eruption, crater, volcano, volcanism, lava, geomorphology
camera Canon 40D, 24mm, f/14, 1/80 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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