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Crater Lake Volcano, USA

Crater Lake Volcano, USA, Volcano photo


Crater Lake, Oregon, USA

Wizard Island cinder cone, with a symmetrical 90-m-wide crater at its summit, formed above the west floor of Oregon's Crater Lake caldera within a few hundred years of caldera formation.

A lava flow created the peninsula in the foreground on the NW side of the cone, which forms a small island on the west side of Crater Lake.

A submerged dome, 30 m beneath the surface 1 km east of Wizard Island, is the youngest feature of Crater Lake caldera.

PHOTO SOURCE: Lee Siebert 1981, courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, used with permission.


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