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Lava Tubes / Craters of the Moon National Monument
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Photographer: Ron Wolf
ID: 0000 0000 1010 0415 (2010-10-07)Copyright © 2010 Ron Wolf
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date of photo Sep 7, 2010
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Craters of the Moon National Monument (Butte County, Idaho, US)notes These caves within the lava flow were created as the eruption came to an end and molten lava moving below the hard surface drained away, leaving the empty channels. Some of these tubes go on for a mile or more. This lava flow and its caves are about 2,200 years old.keywords: geology, earth science, Holocene, Quaternary, Cenozoic, basalt, eruption, volcanism, lava, flow, tube
camera Canon 40D, 42mm, f/16, 0.6 sec.
photo category: Misc. - geology
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