The Life of Lava Beds (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life of Lava Beds S'to earth, and piled up around the vents to form these nearly symmetrical cones. Occasionally, molten rock would also ¿ow smoothly from these vents, building ¿ows from the base of the cones. This, then, is the geological setting: extensive ¿ows of pahoehoe (smooth or ropy lava), and occasional ¿ows of da (broken, clinkery lava), marked by cinder and spatter cones and cut by deep natural cracks and trenches. Late crup tions have added a layer of pumice over much of the area. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.