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 Glimpses of Our National Parks
Carlsbad Caverns, like most caves, is a series of openings in a massive limestone which were made by percolating ground water.
The Carlsbad limestone in which these caverns were formed was laid down originally in a sea of muddy water some 200 million years ago.
After the great series of chambers forming the main portions of the caverns were formed, nature took up the task of decorating them with a myriad of beautifully sculptured effects in the form of stalagmites, stalactites, more irregular spiral forms known as helectites, enormous columns, curtains seemingly of alabaster, and other limestone ornamentations.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses1/glimpses22.htm   (873 words)

  
 10 Less-Traveled National Parks - MSN Encarta
Seuss, even in his wildest dreams, couldn't have created anything as weird and wonderful as the caves in Carlsbad Caverns National Park.* Entering any of the park's 94 caves is like entering a psychedelic world where drips of limestone-laced water have been transformed into myriad peaks and spires.
The brilliant blue waters of Crater Lake have stunned visitors for years, and the thrill of gazing at the mirrorlike waters never grows old.
But Crater Lake National Park* is not just for onlookers: This is a park full of hands-on, outdoor adventure.
encarta.msn.com /list_LessTraveledNationalParks/Less-Traveled_National_Parks.html   (1921 words)

  
 Glimpses of Our National Parks
RATER LAKE is a scenic gem cupped in the crater of an extinct volcano.
Coming suddenly on the rim of the vast crater which holds the lake, one stands silent with emotion, deeply impressed by the hues of blue and intensity of color of the water, and by the grandeur of the towering cliffs which completely surround the lake.
The many rock formations exposed in the crater wall as well as other features on the rim are evidence that such a peak once existed, and that a great catastrophe occurred during which the peak was destroyed and the crater formed.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/glimpses1/glimpses7.htm   (799 words)

  
 Crater Lake NP: Administrative History (Chapter 10)
The purpose of this division is to operate and maintain the physical plant in a manner contributing to the efficient functioning of the park staff, to the welfare of the visitors, and for the preservation of the park resources.
The superintendent of Crater Lake resided in the park and was responsible to the general superintendent for the management and operation of the park.
Approximately one-third of the Crater Lake park staff was assigned to the new group office, thus heaving the park with a shortage of personnel.
www.nps.gov /crla/adhi/adhi10d.htm   (4433 words)

  
 National Parks - Carlsbad Caverns
The Carlsbad Caverns National Park is located in the Guadalupe Mountains which are in the southeastern corner of New Mexico.
Carlsbad Caverns National Park is 46,766.45 acres with 33,125 acres being a wildness area.
Carlsbad Cavern is home to approximately one million Mexican Free-tailed Bats and at least six other types of bats.
beginnersguide.com /adventure-travel/national-parks/carlsbad-caverns.php   (298 words)

  
 Travel
I know there is more to it than that, and would probably have a great time during one of their festivals, but just droping in, I wasn't impressed.
For those who have all day, the morning or evening bat watch is suppose to be nice and they have a couple of other hikes that are for you inshape people.
Our plan for the day was to see the meteor crater, then head for the painted dessert and the petrified forest, then start heading home.
www.homestead.com /larry74f/kctrip02.html   (732 words)

  
 Carlsbad Caverns National Park Facts
Carlsbad caverns national park: fast facts Fast facts carlsbad caverns national park was established to preserve carlsbad cavern and numerous other caves within the guadalupe mountains—a permian-age fossil reef.
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www.carlsbadpro.com /carlsbad_caverns_national_park_facts.html   (606 words)

  
 New Mexico Magazine | Southwest Geology
An extinct volcanic crater near Grants is one of the many geologic wonders of the state.
His efforts led to the official designation of Carlsbad Caverns as a national monument then a park as well as scientific recognition of it being the largest known subterranean cave system in the world.
Carlsbad Caverns in southeastern New Mexico features one of the largest cave systems in the world.
www.nmmagazine.com /NMGUIDE/geology.html   (1006 words)

  
 Catastrophic corrosion of natural gas pipeline
A 49-foot section of the pipe was ejected from the crater in three pieces measuring approximately 3 feet, 20 feet, and 26 feet in length.
No significant corrosion damage was visible on the outside surfaces of the three pieces or on the two ends of the pipeline remaining in the crater.
Two of the pieces of pipe were thrown 234 and 287 feet, respectively, from the northwest end of the crater toward the river.
www.corrosion-doctors.org /Pipeline/Carlsbad-explosion.htm   (1309 words)

  
 Pilot Getaways Magazine - Previous Issues - Spring 2002
The intensely blue circle of Crater Lake is a familiar sight for pilots passing through the southern Cascade Mountains.
Even if you don’t visit the crater’s rim, the friendly town of Prospect is a wonderful stopover all by itself.
Carlsbad has fun for the whole family, whether you prefer it casual or sophisticated.
www.pilotgetaways.com /spring02.html   (1025 words)

  
 Carlsbad Current-Argus - Mars rover poised to reveal secrets of huge crater
NASA scientists said the rover came within about 15 feet of Victoria Crater's rim and was scheduled to climb over a small sand dune Wednesday night and stop right at the crater's edge.
The outcroppings project into the crater, and scientists said they would allow the rover to take dramatic panoramic shots in color with its high-resolution camera.
He said Martian geology appears to be similar to Earth's, although the long absence of water allows rocks to remain unchanged for much longer periods.
www.currentargus.com /ci_4407601   (417 words)

  
 NPS: Nature & Science» Geology Resources Division   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon - Just under 2,000 feet, Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States and the second deepest in the Western Hemisphere.
Craters of the Moon National Monument, Idaho - Contains some of the best and most recent basaltic lava features in the conterminous U.S. spreading out over 600 sq.
Craters of the Moon represents the second, basaltic stage of the violent rhyolitic eruptions that helped to create Yellowstone National Park.
www2.nature.nps.gov /geology/geologic_wonders/superlatives.htm   (495 words)

  
 Carlsbad Ca Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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home-11.akatarawarivershop.com /carlsbad-ca-home.html   (520 words)

  
 WVGES GeoEd: Applied Geology, Spring 2000--Transcript 2
This is the extent across the United States with Crater Lake being down in the lower corner to demonstrate where the ash and the debris fell.
Carlsbad Caverns then is dissolved out of rocks that's chock full with fossils and fossil fragments.
The only thing that saved Carlsbad was that the entrance had a sharp drop off and not even the Native Americans used it.
www.wvgs.wvnet.edu /www/geoeduc/edcs00t2.htm   (10273 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Carlsbad is a National Park, which I thought meant no admission was charged.
In Slovenia they said they were the second biggest cavern in the world, second to Carlsbad, but that they were the biggest with stalagmites and stalactites.
That was a lie, obviously, but I have to say that Carlsbad has nothing to match the underground train ride Slovenia has.
www.anomalies.net /archive/ftp_archives/ftp.mc.hik.se/wiretap-library/Article/Journey/arizona.trv   (23917 words)

  
 Diary
After arriving in Carlsbad, we checked into a motel were we spent the night.
At Carlsbad Caverns, we bought a National Park Pass (which is good at any National Park - it cost $50).
We saw probably the best scenery in the world, from the rock formations of Carlsbad Caverns to the breathtaking views of Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone to the trees of Redwood and Sequoia National Parks to the beautiful blue waters of Crater Lake and the white capped mountains of Colorado.
www.thelansdens.com /diary.htm   (4100 words)

  
 The Ballad of Carlsbad
After navigating several bomb craters and ditches carefully so as not to drag anything, I arrive to find this pimply faced sixties hippie on a three-wheeler.
He is waving his arms and turning red, finally I realize that the line he is talking about is back up the crater, onto the busy street.
They got one lane of chuck-hole dirt all the way down into this crap house crater that is wall to wall with dust, dirt open exhaust, etc.
www.markviii.org /LOD2/ballad_of_carlsbad.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Trail to crater rim at Mount St. Helens may be reopened North County Times - North San Diego and Southwest Riverside ...
A trail to the south rim of the Mount St. Helens crater, closed since a slow eruption began in late September 2004, may reopen this year, officials say.
VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A trail to the south rim of the crater of Mount St. Helens, closed since the start of a dome-building eruption in late September 2004, may be reopened this year, officials say.
If the trail is reopened, climbers could get a close-up look at the relatively quiet oozing of molten rock into the gaping horseshoe-shaped crater from the volcano's explosive eruption of May, 18, 1980.
www.nctimes.com /articles/2006/03/20/science/13_01_083_16_06.txt   (640 words)

  
 Spirit Off To Columbia Hills As Opportunity Goes to Endurance Crater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Spirit then began the 35-meter (114.8 feet) combination directed and autonomous navigation drive down the rocky, ejecta-covered side of "Bonneville Crater." Fifteen meters (49.2 feet) of the drive were directed by rover planners and did not require the rover to use its hazard avoidance software.
The remaining 20 meters (65.6 feet) were navigated by Spirit autonomously and did cause the rover to make some back and forth adjustments as it avoided what it perceived to be a depression hazard in its path.
The afternoon hours were dedicated to intensive study of a handful of targets on Bounce, including the impression ground by the rock abrasion tool on sol 66.
www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/printer_868.shtml   (453 words)

  
 OurTrip
It was getting late in the day, and we had planned on visiting the Meteor Crater anyway, so we camped there at the RV Park for the night.
When you are standing on the rim of the crater, at the Moon Mountain Telescope platform, you can see for miles in all directions.
In the museum and visitors center you can learn all about meteorites, and how this crater was formed (the impact is estimated to be equivalent to a 15-20 megaton explosion) and the modern history of the site (among other things, NASA trained the Apollo Astronauts here).
home.sc.rr.com /dprovenzano/ourtrip.htm   (4240 words)

  
 JPL.NASA.GOV: Mars Exploration Rovers
PDT on April 23, the rover team decided that although "Fram Crater" was an intriguing depression, the potential hazards and the time involved in investigating it made it more of a tour stop than a destination.
With the goal of "Endurance Crater" in mind, the rover finished its investigation of the rock called "Pilbara." A final Moessbauer spectrometer measurement was taken, and then the miniature thermal emission spectrometer studied the recently carved rock abrasion tool hole.
PDT on April 21, performing remote sensing on the inside of "Missoula Crater." It acquired panoramic camera and mini thermal emission spectrometer panoramas and navigation camera images of the crater, along with some panoramic camera images looking back toward "Bonneville" crater.
www.jpl.nasa.gov /missions/mer/daily.cfm?date=4&year=2004   (5430 words)

  
 National Park Service: National Parks Portfolio (Crater Lake)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Rogue River, which has its source partially within the park, is one of the most famous trout streams in the world, being the home of the phenomenally game steelhead.
Anglers of experience in western fishing have testified that, pound for pound, the trout taken in the cold deep waters of Crater Lake are about the hardest-fighting trout of all.
Some fish may be taken from the shore of Crater Lake, but the best fishing is to be had from boats.
www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/portfolio/portfolio5k.htm   (232 words)

  
 Carlsbad Caverns National Park Hotels
Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age fossil reef, the park contains 100 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave--the nation's deepest limestone cave at 1,567 feet (478m) and third longest.
These geothermal wonders are evidence of one of the world's largest active volcanoes; its last eruption created a crater or caldera that spans almost half of the park.
An outstanding mountain wildland with clean water and air, Yellowstone is home of the grizzly bear and wolf, and free-ranging herds of bison and elk.
www.nationalparkhotelguide.com /carlsbad_caverns_hotels.html   (337 words)

  
 BBC News | AMERICAS | Eleven die in US campsite blast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Bobby Smith, aged 43, was the sixth member of the same extended family to die in the disaster.
The blast left a crater 86 feet (26m) long and 20 feet (six metres) deep.
The disaster took place close to the Carlsbad Caverns National Park, whose caves, bats and fossils attracts large numbers of visitors.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/890693.stm   (439 words)

  
 Michael McCafferty - Daily Flight Log   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Winslow Arizona is the closest town to the Meteor Crater, a one mile wide hole in the ground created 49,000 years ago when a meteorite made a visit from outer space.
I have flown over this crater at least twice in the Waco on other trips in the last three years, and I have always wanted to get closer to it.
Maybe if I let it go, the crater will come to me. Real Zen stuff like this is going through my mind and out of nowhere comes this guy dressed in a flight suit walking out to the Waco for a look-see.
www.michaelmccafferty.com /adventures/usa/fiftysix.htm   (708 words)

  
 Carlsbad Caverns National Park National Parks Souvenirs.com - The place for Souvenirs on the Internet Find it @ ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Established to preserve Carlsbad Cavern and numerous other caves within a Permian-age fossil reef, the park contains more than 100 known caves, including Lechuguilla Cave-the nation's deepest limestone cave at 1,567 feet (478m) and third longest.
Carlsbad Cavern, with one of the world's largest underground chambers and countless formations, is highly accessible, with a variety of tours offered year-round.
The goal of the National Park System is to offer a window into the historical richness of the National Park System and the opportunities it presents for understanding who we are, where we have been, and how we as a society, might approach the future.
www.souvenirs.com /natl_parks/carlsbad.html   (425 words)

  
 Spaceflight Now | Destination Mars | Mission Status Center
A panorama of Eagle Crater where the Opportunity landed and has explored for the past two months is presented with narration by mission manager Matt Wallace.
The Gusev Crater rover moved 92.4 meters (303 feet) across the surface in one sol, breaking its previous record of around 90 meters (295 feet).
Opportunity sits about half a meter (1.6 feet) outside the edge of the crater with a positive pitch of 4.7 degrees, meaning the rover is slightly tilted with its head up.
spaceflightnow.com /mars/mera/status.html   (8909 words)

  
 Crater Lake National Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was established on May 22, 1902 as the fifth National Park in the U.S. The park encompasses Crater Lake's caldera, which rests in the remains of a destroyed volcano posthumously called Mount Mazama.
The battle was witnessed in the eruption of Mt. Mazama and the creation of Crater Lake.
The first known Caucasians to visit the lake were a trio of gold prospectors: John Wesley Hillman, Henry Klippel, and Issac Skeeters who, on June 12, 1853, stumbled upon the long, sloping mountain while looking for a lost mine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crater_Lake_National_Park   (1765 words)

  
 New Mexico Pipeline Explosion Seismic Signals
Many of the source constraints provided by the seismic data were not available from any other investigative technique and thus were valuable to a diverse range of parties including the New Mexico state police, law firms involved in litigation related to the accident, the National Transportation and Safety Board, and the general public.
The crater is 86 feet long, 46 feet wide, and 20 feet deep.
The people camped near the pipeline may have been unaware of its exact location because it was buried 15 feet underground, although the pipeline emerged from the ground to cross the Pecos river at a nearby bridge.
www.ees.nmt.edu /Geop/Pipeline/pipeline.html   (943 words)

  
 Carlsbad New Homes - Find New and Custom Homes in Carlsbad, california
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