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  • The Lava Mountains are a mountain range located along the northern edge of the Mojave Desert, in San Bernardino County, California. They are one of the...
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    Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface...
    56 KB (6,577 words) - 03:47, 21 August 2024
  • Mountains and hills can be characterized in several ways. Some mountains are volcanoes and can be characterized by the type of lava and eruptive history...
    3 KB (200 words) - 04:12, 1 September 2024
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    In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Dome-building eruptions...
    17 KB (1,449 words) - 19:36, 25 October 2024
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    eruption of Glass Mountain. The flows from Mammoth and Modoc Craters comprise about two-thirds of the lava in the monument. Over 30 separate lava flows located...
    29 KB (2,572 words) - 00:35, 8 October 2024
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    Blue lava, also known as (Indonesian: Api Biru), and simply referred to as blue fire or sulfur fire, is a phenomenon that occurs when sulfur burns. It...
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    Mount Edziza (redirect from Edziza Mountain)
    2-kilometre-in diameter (1.2-mile) crater. The mountain contains several lava domes, cinder cones and lava fields on its flanks, as well as an ice cap that...
    66 KB (7,810 words) - 18:23, 5 November 2024
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    Lava Butte is a cinder cone in central Oregon, United States, just west of U.S. Route 97 between the towns of Bend, and Sunriver in Deschutes County. It...
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    Mammoth Mountain is a lava dome complex partially located within the town of Mammoth Lakes, California, in the Inyo National Forest of Madera and Mono...
    20 KB (1,787 words) - 16:55, 3 November 2024
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    Boring Lava Field (also known as the Boring Volcanic Field) is a Plio-Pleistocene volcanic field with cinder cones, small shield volcanoes, and lava flows...
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  • The Lava Bed Mountains are located in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, United States. The mountains lie in a northwest-southeasterly direction...
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    Tseax Cone (category Hazelton Mountains)
    four lava flows that descended into neighbouring valleys. A secondary eruptive centre lies just north of Tseax Cone on the opposite side of a lava-dammed...
    40 KB (4,751 words) - 16:05, 2 November 2024
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    volume (about 42,000 km3 or 10,000 cu mi), although, due to the intergrade of lava from Kilauea, Hualalai and Mauna Kea, the volume can only be estimated based...
    58 KB (2,254 words) - 02:05, 25 October 2024
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    The most common rocks that comprise Whistler Mountain are andesite and dacite lava flows. These lava flows and the associated shale form part of a rock...
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    Olympus Mons (category Mountains on Mars)
    of volcanic activity on the mountain. The largest and oldest caldera segment appears to have formed as a single, large lava lake. Using geometric relationships...
    30 KB (3,606 words) - 12:38, 16 July 2024
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    Mount St. Helens (category Lava domes of the United States)
    and pulverized lavas and rocks (tephra) distinguished this period. Large lava flows of andesite and basalt covered parts of the mountain, including one...
    85 KB (8,809 words) - 05:37, 5 November 2024
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    The lava bear (also known as sand lapper, dwarf grizzly, and North American sun bear) is a variety of American black bear (Ursus americanus) found in the...
    13 KB (1,473 words) - 21:11, 26 April 2024
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    Mount Mazama (category Lava domes of the United States)
    volcanic cones and lava domes on their southern flanks. Glacial horns like the Watchman lava flow were also present, and the mountain may or may not have...
    83 KB (10,719 words) - 11:14, 3 November 2024
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    fumaroles. Shamao Mountain is a round volcanic dome that looks like a black gauze cap. As the lava was more viscous when the mountain was formed, it gradually...
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    between Boise and Yellowstone National Park. The lava field reaches southeastward from the Pioneer Mountains. Combined U.S. Highway 20–26–93 cuts through...
    70 KB (7,557 words) - 00:15, 27 October 2024
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