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This cinder cone is the youngest volcano in Lassen Volcanic National Park; it erupted around 1650. We did not walk up the steep trail.
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Looking west from the Halemau’u Trail across the summit valley basin of Haleakalā, numerous cinder cones surrounded by fields of ash and ‘a’ā lava flows are visible. A pyrogenic landscape that looks more like the surface of Mars or the Moon than a tropical Pacific island. Minerals and metal oxides from eruptions, weathering, and erosion, color this alpine aeolian desert. This topography was formed after a rejuvenation phase beginning only 100,000 years ago and erupting as recently as 500 years ago. The Haleakalā Wilderness Area is one of the most memorable and special places I’ve ever hiked and camped. With a dark night sky and spectacular, desolate, other-worldly landscape with a few uniquely adapted endemic plants and wildlife, it is an exceptional place for contemplative solitude after a strenuous day of backpacking.
A cinder cone or scoria cone is a conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments, such as scoria that has been built around a volcanic vent.
When we passed this scoria cone in Iceland the sun on the sparse vegetation highlighted the autumn colours and rounded slopes of this volcanic hill.
The Cinder Cones of the Mojave National Preserve after a fresh spring rainfall—
The Recent Dome Fire has really spread havoc on this Beautiful Desert, burning over 43,000 acres - Definitely Heartbreaking to see the Destruction
Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and national preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho. It is along US 20 (concurrent with US 93 and US 26), between the small towns of Arco and Carey, at an average elevation of 5,900 feet (1,800 m) above sea level. The protected area's features are volcanic and represent one of the best-preserved flood basalt areas in the continental United States.
The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. In November 2000, a presidential proclamation by President Clinton greatly expanded the Monument area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were designated as Craters of the Moon National Preserve in August 2002. It lies in parts of Blaine, Butte, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Power counties. The area is managed cooperatively by the National Park Service and the Bureau of Land Management.
Pentax 645N II
Pentax smc FA 645 75mm f/2.8
Kodak Ektar 100
At one point there was some type of architectural design attempt to pretty-up the door and wall with a pattern and flowers. ......Long time since then.
This section of the Mojave Road passes through a series of cinder cones. We detoured north to the lava tubes from here. Photos coming up next.
The link below is to a Google sat map of this cinder cone. Zoom out and scroll around to see the others.
Mojave National Preserve
I got up early in order to hike up Cinder Cone in order to get some views of the Painted Dunes.
Unfortunately, it was too early for my brain to be working because I seem to have forgotten that I was shooting with the 70-300mm lens that I've slowly grown to hate because of its crappy focus and lack of sharpness, or rather the finesse and presence that is needed in order to not get soft and blurred images while using the lens.
To a great extent, the morning's shoot was largely for nothing. I really need to get a different lens or some kind of reminder that this camera is not the same as my point and shoot.
And in case you are curious, it is believed that Cinder Cone last erupted in the 1650s.
Potrillo Volcanic Field
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
New Mexico
Cinder cones are the simplest type of volcano. They are built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent. As the gas-charged lava is blown violently into the air, it breaks into small fragments that solidify and fall as cinders around the vent to form a circular or oval cone.
Haleakala National Park, Maui.
This is another shot I took a long time ago with my Pentax Spotmatic ES.
Hiked 4 miles to see the beautiful vista. The last several hundred feet up to the summit were brutal (steep climb up loose ash). Totally worth it.
Ripples like water; the coarse, hardened fire
Windswept and barren, painted with shadow
Skeletons embellish the cinder slope
Birthed from a womb of magma
Volcanic cinder cones and ‘a’ā flow from a rejuvenation phase beginning only 100,000 years ago cover the basin floor of Haleakalā. The three dominant foreground cones are Pu’u o Māui, Pu’u o Pele, and Kama’ali’i. If not for the blue sky, this could be a Martian landscape. In the distance, beyond the southern rim of Haleakalā and across the ‘Alenuihāhā Channel, are the shield volcanoes Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the neighboring Big Island of Hawaii.
A cinder cone inside the eroded depression on the summit of Mt Haleakala on the Hawaiian island of Maui. The late afternoon light is casting shadows, giving an eerie, almost extra-terrestrial aspect to the scene. A hiking trail runs along the edge of the cone. Cinder cones are created when high pressure volcanic gases eject frothy bits of lava from a vent. The bits of congealed lava, the cinders, form a relatively short cone around the vent.
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