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Lava and Mount Shasta from Lava Beds National Monument
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Fig. 1Lava and Mount Shasta from Lava Beds National Monument

Photo: zoxcleb · CC BY-SA 2.0

Landform

A young lava sea under Schonchin Butte — tubes, cinder, and Shasta standing on the south skyline.

Field note

Schonchin is the cone you climb for the view. Tulelake is the town. This plate is Lava Beds National Monument, not Craters of the Moon and not El Malpais.

Lava Beds is young basalt under Schonchin Butte, with Shasta on the south skyline. Tulelake is the town. This plate is the national monument, not Craters of the Moon and not El Malpais.

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Prints from Lava Beds


Instant paper, this copy only. Write on the white — a line the walk still owes you.

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