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The Mountains of California
John Muir
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The Mountains of California
John Muir
Book Excerpt: ...r ready to become spouting geysers like those of the Yellowstone. The Cinder Cone near marks the most recent volcanic eruption in the Sierra. It is a symmetrical truncated cone about 700 feet high, covered with gray cinders and ashes, and has a regular unchanged crater on its summit, in which a few small Two-leaved Pines are growing. These show that the age of the cone is not less than eighty years. It stands between two lakes, which a short time ago were one. Before the cone was built, a flood of rough vesicular lava was poured into the lake, cutting it in two, and, overflowing its banks, the fiery flood advanced into the pine-woods, overwhelming the trees in its way, the charred ends of some of which may still be seen projecting from beneath the snout of the lava-stream where it came to rest. Later still there was an eruption of ashes and loose obsidian cinders, probably from the same vent, which, besides forming the Cinder Cone, scattered a heavy shower over the surrounding woods for miles to a depth of...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | December 27, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798551043317 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 104 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 6 mm · 149 g |
Language | English |
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