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Cinder Cone summit, Lassen Volcanic Center, California

By California Volcano Observatory
Taken from a high vantage point, this photo shows a landscape of rolling, barren hills stained in reds, tans, and blacks merging into a field of jagged black lava flows. In the distance, mountains rise above a pine-forest and bright blue lake.
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The "Fantastic Lava Beds" and tephra deposits viewed from the summit of Cinder Cone. USGS photo by A. Hotovec-Ellis.

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