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2. Coso Volcanic Field - Wikipedia

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   Obsidian from the Coso Volcanic Fields was heavily exploited by Native American Coso People to make knives, projectile points, and the like (Hughes 1998). The chief period of exploitation was between approximately 3000 and 1000 years ago, when people mined obsidian by constructing benches in hillsides and digging deep pits to access raw materials (Elston and Zeier 1984; Gilreath and Hildebrand ...

3. Cima volcanic field - Wikipedia

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   Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada. [3] [4] The volcanic field covers a surface area of 600 km 2 (230 sq mi) within the Mojave National Preserve west of the Cima Dome and consists of about 40 volcanic cones with about 60 lava flows.

4. Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway - Wikipedia

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   It is composed of two separate National Scenic Byways, the Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway - Oregon and Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway - California. The former includes Rim Drive within Crater Lake National Park , while the latter wholly includes the Lassen Scenic Byway within Lassen Volcanic National Park .

5. Schonchin Butte - Wikipedia

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   Schonchin Butte is a cinder cone on the northern flank of Medicine Lake Volcano in the Cascade Range in northern California. Frothy lava, cooled in the air, created the large cinder cones throughout Lava Beds National Monument. It is named for Old Schonchin, a chief of the Modoc people during the late nineteenth century. Erupting more than ...

6. Clear Lake Volcanic Field - Wikipedia

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   Clear Lake Volcanic Field; Highest point; Elevation: 4,724 ft (1,440 m) [1] Coordinates: 2]: Geography; Location: Lake County, California, United States: Parent range: North Coast Ranges: Topo map: USGS Kelseyville: Geology; Rock age: less than 2.1 million years [3]: Mountain type(s): lava domes, cinder cones, maars within volcanic field [2]: Last eruption: Holocene [2]: Geologic map of the ...

7. Mushpot Cave - Wikipedia

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   Lavacicles within Mushpot Cave. Upon entering Mushpot Cave, an open lava-tube cave extends downstream on the right and an alcove extends upstream on the left. The walls of this alcove are covered with lava dripstone—a thick plaster of sticky lava that oozed and dripped down the wall in thin lobes as the surface of molten lava lowered within the tube.

8. Coast Hotels - Wikipedia

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   Coast Hotels is a mid-range hotel chain in western North America with over 37 hotels and resorts in the US states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Alberta, and Yukon. The chain has been a subsidiary of the Japan-based APA Group since 2016. [1]

9. California Coastal National Monument - Wikipedia

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   One of thousands of offshore rocks in the CCNM. The California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act of 2017 [12] added five coastal sites: 440 acres (180 ha) at Lost Coast Headlands, 13 acres (5.3 ha) at Trinidad Head, 8 acres (3.2 ha) at Lighthouse Ranch in Humboldt County, 5,780 acres (2,340 ha) from the Cotoni-Coast Dairies in Santa Cruz County and 20 acres (8.1 ha) from Piedras Blancas ...