Lava Land #2: The Big Obsidian Flow, AKA The Glass Mountain
August 16th 2010 August 12-13, 2010: Having found out that there's a bigger crater in Oregon than Crater Lake (crater = caldera: the basin resulting from a violent volcanic eruption) we of course had to see it.
A part of Newberry National Volcanic Monument, this crater is 26 miles across! But more recent events in geologic time have built a partition across the caldera, so where Crater Lake is one lake, at Newbe
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