Lassen Volcanic Center, USA
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Lassen Volcanic Center, USA
Chaos Crags in the foreground and Lassen Peak in the background are large lava dome complexes in the southern Cascade Range.
Chaos Crags consists of a group of five overlapping dacitic lava domes that were erupted a little over 1000 years ago.
Lassen Peak was formed about 25,000 years ago, but last erupted during 1914-17.
PHOTO SOURCE: Dan Dzurisin 1982, US Geological Survey, courtesy of the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, used with permission.
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