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  • A couple of trees grow between two large splatter cones resulting from the eruption of the north crater in Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho.
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  • Lichen grows on the walls near the entrance of Beauty Cave, a 300-foot (100-meter) long lava tube in the Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho.
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  • A bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva) grows among the lava rocks that make up a cider cone in the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
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  • A gnarled, bleached tree frames one of the many cinder cones in the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho.
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  • Pahoehoe lava, characterized by its smooth, rope-like appearance, is one of three types of lava. Pahoehoe's ropy surface forms when a thin skin of cool lava is shoved into folds by hot, more-fluid lava just below the surface. This sample was found in Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho. Pahoehoe is pronounced Pa-hoy-hoy.
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  • This unusual "triple twist tree" growing out of a crack in a lava field at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho helped scientists determine the age of the flow here. The tree has 1,350 rings, so scientists figure the flow here is about 2,000 years old. This flow is the youngest in Craters of the Moon National Monument.
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  • A pond forms in one of the explosion pits that is part of the Inyo Craters near Mammoth Lakes, California. The pits are part of an especially active volcanic area that stretches from Mono Lake to Mammoth Mountain. The activity that produced the Inyo Craters dates from 500 to 5,000 years ago, with some of the pits being 200 feet (60 meters) deep.
    CA_Inyo-Craters_Pond_0893.jpg
  • Red rock lines a large volcanic crater, one of many in an area known as Diamond Craters in southeastern Oregon. The area contains dozens of basaltic lava flows, cinder cones, and maars ranging in age from 6,000 to 60,000 years old.
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  • Colorful crustose lichens grow on lava rock at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. Lichens are a symbiosis of a fungus and a green alga and/or cyanobacterium. Crustose are very slow growing, typically growing 1 millimeter or less per year.
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  • Slightly more than half the moon is illuminated in this view of the night sky. Half moons are typically called quarters - first quarter and last quarter - and coincide with neap tides, the mildest tidal changes of the month. During neap tides, the difference between high tide and low tide is the least. The sun and moon are at right angles to Earth, weakening their combined gravitational pull.
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  • A hint of golden sunrise color shines through the dark storm clouds hovering over Wizard Island and Crater Lake in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Crater Lake, the deepest fresh water lake in North America, is located in a caldera at the top of what was once Mount Mazama. A massive eruption around 5,700 B.C. caused the mountain to collapse. While the Wizard Island cone is long dormant, there is some hydrothermal activity at the bottom of Crater Lake, suggesting the mountain is still active.
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  • The deep blue color of Crater Lake is visible in this early spring aerial view over Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Crater Lake, located in the caldera of what was once Oregon's Mount Mazama, is the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh deepest in the world. Its deep blue color results from the clarity of the water. The water is so clear that sunlight travels deep into the lake, losing all but the blue wavelengths in the process. Crater Lake has a maximum depth of 1,946 feet (593 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder cone that rises about 755 feet (230 meters) above the lake, is visible at the bottom-center of the lake in this image.
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  • A natural nighttime pillar of light known as the Zodiacal Light shines above and is reflected in Crater Lake, Oregon. The Zodiacal Light results from the sun shining on dust particles from old comets. The dust particles - the largest of which are believed to be just 0.3 mm and miles from its nearest neighboring particle - orbit the sun in a range from Mars to beyond Jupiter. Visible year-round in the tropics, the Zodiacal Light is best viewed immediately around the spring and fall solstice farther from the equator. The planet Venus, the brightest object in the sky, is visible near the peak of the Zodiacal Light and is also reflected in Crater Lake. The Milky Way, visible on the right, intersects with the Zodiacal Light at the top-center of the image. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder code, is visible in the foreground.
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  • A natural nighttime pillar of light known as the Zodiacal Light shines above and is reflected in Crater Lake, Oregon. The Zodiacal Light results from the sun shining on dust particles left behind by comets. The dust particles - the largest of which are believed to be just 0.3 mm and miles from its nearest neighboring particle - orbit the sun in a range from Mars to beyond Jupiter. Visible year-round in the tropics, the Zodiacal Light is best viewed immediately around the spring and fall solstice farther from the equator. The planet Venus, the brightest object in the sky, is visible near the peak of the Zodiacal Light and is also reflected in Crater Lake. The Milky Way, visible on the right, intersects with the Zodiacal Light at the top-center of the image. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder code, is visible in the foreground.
    CraterLake_ZodiacalLight_9620.jpg
  • The sun sets behind the rim of Crater Lake in this view from the Cloud Cap Overlook in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder cone, is visible in the lake just beneath the sun; Phantom Ship, another remnant of volcanic activity, is visible as an island on the left side of the image.
    CraterLake_CloudCap_Sunset_9744.jpg
  • Thick fog seems to originate from the volcanic cone of Wizard Island, located in Crater Lake, Oregon. Crater Lake, the deepest fresh water lake in North America, is located in a caldera at the top of what was once Mount Mazama. A massive eruption around 5,700 B.C. caused the mountain to collapse. While the Wizard Island cone is long dormant, there is some hydrothermal activity at the bottom of Crater Lake, suggesting the mountain is still active.
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  • The rising sun clears the eastern caldera rim of Crater Lake, Oregon. Wizard Island, a dormant volcanic cone formed after the cataclysmic eruption of the ancient Mount Mazama, is visible in the foreground. Crater Lake, protected as a national park, is the deepest freshwater lake in North America.
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  • Thousands of stars and the planet Venus shine over Crater Lake in Oregon just before sunrise. The planet Venus is the brightest object in the sky and is visible near the center of the image and reflected in the lake. Crater Lake, which is actually a caldera, formed when Mount Mazama erupted violently about 7,700 years ago, causing its summit to collapse. Subsequent eruptions sealed the caldera, trapping rain water and snowmelt, forming the lake, which has a maximum depth of 1,949 feet (594 meters). Wizard Island, a volcanic cinder code, is visible in the foreground.
    CraterLake_Stars_Dawn_9769.jpg
  • The horseshoe-shaped crater of Mount St. Helens is visible in this aerial view of the Washington state volcano. During the May 18, 1980 eruption, the north face of the volcano collapsed. Since then, new lava domes have formed in the crater and are visible here. Mount St. Helens now stands ‎8,363 feet (2,549 meters), losing about 13 percent of its summit in the 1980 eruption. It is the most active volcano in the Cascade Range during the Holocene epoch (past 10,000 years).
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  • Steam rises from the water-filled Inferno Crater, located in the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley near Rotorua, New Zealand. The terrace is part of a hydrothermal system in 1886 by the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera. Waimangu means 'black water' in Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. The area was given that name because its largest geyser erupted water that was filled with mud and rocks.
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  • The rising sun clears the eastern caldera rim of Crater Lake, Oregon. Wizard Island, a dormant volcanic cone formed after the cataclysmic eruption of the ancient Mount Mazama, is visible near the center of the image. Crater Lake, protected as a national park, is the deepest freshwater lake in North America.
    CraterLakeSunrise.jpg
  • Crater Lake, located in the caldera of what was once Oregon's Mount Mazama, is the deepest lake in the United States and the seventh deepest in the world. Its deep blue color results from the clarity of the water. The water is so clear that sunlight travels deep into the lake, losing all but the blue wavelengths in the process.
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  • A Yellow-Bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris) rests on rocks along the rim of Crater Lake, Oregon. Yellow-Bellied Marmots form dens in large boulders and hibernate through the late fall and winter.
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  • The sun rises over the Pacific Ocean, lighting up the sky above the crater in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.
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  • These tall, narrow pillars known as The Pinnacles were formed during the cataclysmic eruption of Mount Mazama, which formed Crater Lake, Oregon. Volcanic gasses rose through layers of dacite pumice and andesite scoria in vents known as fumaroles. With temperatures of 750 degrees Fahrenheit (400 Celsius), the hot gasses welded the sides of the fumaroles. After erosion carried away the rest of the pumice and scoria, these hardened fossil fumaroles were all that remained.
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  • The fog lifts off Crater Lake, Oregon, after a late Spring sunrise, revealing Wizard Island and the deep blue color of the water.
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  • The sun rises through thick fog on a forested slope above Crater Lake in Oregon.
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  • The sun shines into a heavy rain storm, forming rainbows over the crater in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.
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  • The late afternoon sun shines into a heavy rain storm, forming rainbows over the crater at Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.
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  • An approaching storm results in a fiery sunrise over the Haleakala crater in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii. The approaching clouds are blurred by a 30-second exposure.
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  • Steam rises from Inferno Crater, located in the Waimangu Volcanic Rift Valley on the North Island of New Zealand. The hot spring and other geothermal features resulted from the volcanic eruption of Mount Tarawera on June 10, 1886. The area was named for the Waimangu geyser, which was active from 1901 to 1904.
    NZ_Waimangu_InfernoCrater_8980.jpg
  • Suspended sulphur is responsible for the bright green color of the Devil's Bath, an eruption crater lake located in the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland near Rotorua, New Zealand.
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  • The sun rises behind storm clouds developing over the crater in Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii.
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  • An approaching fall storm results in a colorful twilight sky above Haleakala National Park on the Hawaiian island of Maui.
    maui-haleakala-twilight-2535.jpg
  • A pseudocrater is rendered in silhouette against a volanic cone at sunset in Mývatn in northern Iceland. Mývatn is a lake that was formed approximately 2,300 years ago during a volanic period. The shorter hill is a pseudocrater, also known as a rootless vent. While it resembles a volcanic cinder cone, it formed through a different process. As basaltic lava flowed over soggy lake sediments, it flash heated the moisture into vapor, causing it to blast through the lava. Mývatn means lake with midge flies; the lake is infested with them during the summer months.
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  • Grasses and summer wildflowers, including Indian paintbrush, begin to restablish the otherwise barren hillside beneath Johnston Ridge in Mount St. Helens National Monument, Washington.
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  • The sunrise colors the sky above the Kilauea Caldera and Mauna Loa in this view from Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. Mauna Loa, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth, is also the largest, standing about 56,000 feet from its summit to its base on the ocean floor. (It stands 13,680 above sea level.) Mauna Loa means "long mountain." The steaming cliffs are visible at the caldera rim. Rain falls into cracks and is then turned into steam by the hot rocks below the surface.
    Volcanoes_Kilauea-Caldera_8636.jpg
  • The full moon sets behind Mount St. Helens, which is framed by a dramatic fog falls and blooming summer wildflowers, including foxglove and Indian paintbrush.
    MountStHelensFogMoon.jpg
  • Mount St. Helens glows bright white in the alpenglow after sunset. The Toutle River winds through the blast zone created during the May 18, 1980 eruption. That eruption reduced the Washington mountain's summit from9,677 feet (2,950 m) to 8,365 feet (2,550 m).
    MountStHelens_Alpenglow_6841.jpg
  • A pseudocrater is rendered in silhouette against a volanic cone at sunset in Mývatn in northern Iceland. Mývatn is a lake that was formed approximately 2,300 years ago during a volanic period. The shorter hill is a pseudocrater, also known as a rootless vent. While it resembles a volcanic cinder cone, it formed through a different process. As basaltic lava flowed over soggy lake sediments, it flash heated the moisture into vapor, causing it to blast through the lava. Mývatn means lake with midge flies; the lake is infested with them during the summer months.
    Iceland_Myvatn_Pseudocrater-Silhouet...jpg
  • The colorful, thermal-powered Champagne Pool formed in an a 700-year-old explosion crater near Rotorua, New Zealand. The blue water is full of gas bubbles containing carbon dioxide. The dramatic orange rim contains arsenic and antimony sulphur compounds, including gold and silver. The water temperature in the pool averages 74 degrees Celcius (164 degrees Fahrenheit). The pool is located within the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, a protected park on New Zealand's north island.
    NZ_ChampagnePool_0188.jpg
  • Mount Baker, a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano located in Whatcom County, Washington state, takes on a pastel appearance through morning fog near Artist Point in the North Cascades. Mount Baker, which is part of the Cascade Range of mountains, has the second-most thermally active crater in the range, second only to Mount St. Helens. Baker's volcanic cone is relatively young, possibly less than 100,000 years old, even though the area where it sits has been volcanically active for 1.5 million years.
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  • The Icelandic mountain Thrihnukagigur last erupted more than 4,000 years ago. Shown here is the inside of the volcano's magma chamber, the space inside the mountain which housed molten rock from deep inside the earth. Thrihnukagigur means Three Peaks Crater. The cone leading to one of the peaks is shown near the top center.
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  • The cinder cones of Maui's Haleakala crater are backlit by the low-angled light of sunrise.
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  • A meteor from the Perseid meteor shower streaks along the Milky Way, which appears to erupt from Mount Baker in Washington state. The Perseids are an annual meteor shower that occurs in August when Earth passes through the debris of Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. The meteors are comet debris burning up in the Earth's atmosphere. Mount Baker, which stands 10,781 feet (3,286 meters), is an active volcano with the second-most thermally active crater in the Cascade Range.
    Baker_Milky-Way_Perseid-Meteor_0796.jpg
  • The Icelandic mountain Thrihnukagigur last erupted more than 4,000 years ago. Shown here is the inside of the volcano's magma chamber, the space inside the mountain which housed molten rock from deep inside the earth. Thrihnukagigur means Three Peaks Crater.
    Iceland_MagmaChamber_Thrihnukagigur_...jpg
  • Lush rainforest vegetation rises into the mist on the slope of Mount Bisoke in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Mount Bisoke, also known as Visoke, is an active volcano that last erupted in 1957. It is part of the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift and straddles the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, although the summit, which features a crater lake, is in Rwanda.
    Rwanda_Bisoke_Rainforest_8611.jpg
  • Mount Baker, a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano located in Whatcom County, Washington state, is partially reflected in a mountain tarn near Artist Point in the North Cascades. Mount Baker, which is part of the Cascade Range of mountains, has the second-most thermally active crater in the range, second only to Mount St. Helens. Baker's volcanic cone is relatively young, possibly less than 100,000 years old, even though the area where it sits has been volcanically active for 1.5 million years.
    Baker_Tarn_ArtistPoint_0749.jpg
  • Mount Baker, a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano located in Whatcom County, Washington state, is partially reflected in a mountain tarn near Artist Point in the North Cascades. Mount Baker, which is part of the Cascade Range of mountains, has the second-most thermally active crater in the range, second only to Mount St. Helens. Baker's volcanic cone is relatively young, possibly less than 100,000 years old, even though the area where it sits has been volcanically active for 1.5 million years.
    Baker_Tarn_ArtistPoint_0712.jpg
  • A man paddles in the Pacific Ocean toward the Hawaiian islet of Molokini. A humpback whale is visible on the left side of the frame, swimming between the man and the islet. Molokini is partially submerged volcanic crater located west of the island of Maui.
    Maui_Molokini_Kayaker_6409.jpg
  • Mount Baker towers over the turquoise-colored Baker Lake in this aerial view over Whatcom County, Washington. Mount Baker, which is 10,781 feet (3,286 meters) tall, has the second-most thermally active crater of any volcano in the Cascade Range, behind only Mount St. Helens. Baker Lake gets its turquoise color from glacial silt, which gets trapped in its water.
    Baker_BakerLake_Aerial_2349.jpg
  • A large flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) fly over the Skagit Valley of Washington state with Mount Baker in the background. Tens of thousands of snow geese winter in the Skagit Valley of Washington state, feeding on leftovers in farmers' fields. Mount Baker is a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano that has the second-most active crater of any mountain in the Cascade Range.
    SnowGeese_MountBaker_Skagit_5506.jpg
  • A ranger talks to visitors at the Johnston Ridge Observatory about the dome-building activity in the crater of Mount St. Helens, Washington.
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  • Storm clouds climb up the crater in Haleakala National Park on the Hawaiian island of Maui at sunset.
    maui-haleakala-storm-sunset.jpg
  • A golden-mantled ground squirrel (Spermophilus lateralis) looks out from grasses that are nearly as tall as it is. The squirrel, typically 9 to 12 inches in length, is found in forests throughout North America. This one was found on the rim of Crater Lake, Oregon.
    GoldenMantledSquirrel.jpg
  • Rain falls down the cone of the extinct Icelandic volcano Thrihnukagigur, draining into its former magma chamber. Thrihnukagigur last erupted more than 4,000 years ago and its name means Three Peaks Crater.
    Iceland_Volcanic-Cone_Thrihnukagigur...jpg
  • The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean and Sugar Loaf Islands, a series of small, uninhabited islands near Port Taranaki on the North Island of New Zealand. The islands are remnants of an ancient volcanic crater that has eroded into small islands and sea stacks. That volcano last erupted approximately 1.7 million years ago. In this image, Motuotamatea Island (Snapper Rock) is visible on the left. On the right, from front to back, the islands are Mataora Island (Round Rock), Pararaki Island (Seagull Rock) and Waikaranga Island (Seal Rocks).
    NZ_Nga-Motu_Sugar-Loaf-Islands_Sunse...jpg
  • The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean, turning golden the clouds above Makena Beach on the island of Maui, Hawai`i. The island of Kahoolawe, which was used for military target practice, is visible on the horizon at left; Molokini, a small islet that is a partially submerged volcanic crater, appears on the horizon just to the left of the sun.
    Maui_MakenaBeach_Sunset_6077.jpg
  • A very large flock of snow geese (Chen caerulescens) fly over the Skagit Valley of Washington state with Mount Baker in the background. Tens of thousands of snow geese winter in the Skagit Valley, feeding in farmers' fields. They breed during the summer months on the upper reaches of Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia. Mount Baker, which has an elevation of 10,781 feet (3,286 meters), has the second-most thermally active crater of any volcano in the Cascade Range.
    SnowGeese_Flock_Baker_Skagit_6215.jpg
  • The colorful, thermal-powered Champagne Pool formed in an a 700-year-old explosion crater near Rotorua, New Zealand. The blue water is full of gas bubbles containing carbon dioxide. The dramatic orange rim contains arsenic and antimony sulphur compounds, including gold and silver. The water temperature in the pool averages 74 degrees Celcius (164 degrees Fahrenheit). The pool is located within the Wai-O-Tapu Thermal Wonderland, a protected park on New Zealand's north island.
    NZ_ChampagnePool_0199.jpg
  • Mount Baker, a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano located in Whatcom County, Washington state, towers above the trees and morning fog near Artist Point in the North Cascades. Mount Baker, which is part of the Cascade Range of mountains, has the second-most thermally active crater in the range, second only to Mount St. Helens. Baker's volcanic cone is relatively young, possibly less than 100,000 years old, even though the area where it sits has been volcanically active for 1.5 million years.
    Baker_AboveTreesAndFog_ArtistPoint_0...jpg
  • The setting sun reddens the southwestern face of Mount Baker, a 10,781 foot (3,286 meter) volcano located in Whatcom County, Washington state. Mount Baker, which is part of the Cascade Range of mountains, has the second-most thermally active crater in the range, second only to Mount St. Helens. Baker's volcanic cone is relatively young, possibly less than 100,000 years old, even though the area where it sits has been volcanically active for 1.5 million years.
    Baker_Sunset_FromFirIsland_6449.jpg
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