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Lava Beds National Monument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lava Beds National Monument, located in Siskiyou and Modoc Counties, California, is the site of the largest concentration of lava tube caves in the United States. Though Cinder Butte is just outside the boundary of the monument, the Callahan flow is in Lava Beds and is the youngest flow in the monument. Roughly ninety percent of the lava in the monument is basaltic. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lava_Beds_National_Monument   (1366 words)

Wildernet - Lava Beds National Monument Begin your visit to Lava Beds National Monument at the visitor center in the southern portion of the park. The monument is surrounded by the Modoc National Forest, on the north and east, the Klamath National Forest, on the south and west, and the Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge on the northern boundary. In 1872 the U.S. Army invaded the rough terrain of the lava beds. www.wildernet.com /pages/area.cfm?areaid=CANPLB&cu_id=157   (959 words)

Lava Beds National Monument Dry, inhospitable, rugged, and remote, Lava Beds National Monument is often hot in the summer, foggy in the winter, and inexplicably eerie at dusk. Lava Beds National Monument is always open to visitors. Lava Beds’ 72 square miles are covered with volcanic rock deposited there by periodic eruptions over the past 500,000 years. www.travellady.com /Issues/January05/1182LavaBeds.htm   (850 words)

Lava Beds NM In the vicinity of Lava Beds National Monument there are several interesting locations in the Klamath and Modoc National Forests to the south, reached by gravel tracks that branch off the scenic drive, or by a rather longer journey north from CA 89. More Lava: The route to the lake, the Lava Beds-Medicine Lake Road, continues south for another 7 miles to the more remote Burnt Lava Flow Wilderness Area, a much larger lava deposit surrounded by a ring of cinder cones and containing several ice caves. Further south, in wooded country just before the monument boundary is the impressive, sheer sided Mammoth Crater, the source of much of the lava flows in the monument. www.pacificislandtravel.com /north_america/western_usa/california/nc_lavabeds.html   (1466 words)

John Donohue's National Park Photos- Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds National Monument is located in northern California, roughly halfway between Craters of the Moon, and Lassen Volcanic NP. John Donohue's National Park Photos- Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds NM is very similar to Craters of the Moon NM in Idaho. www.serve.com /wizjd/parks/lava_beds/lava_beds.html   (227 words)

Lava Beds National Monument: The natural beauty of what is, and isn’t, there - July 24, 2005 Lava Beds National Monument has a lot of lava caves and a famous Indian battleground, but what it’s really loved for is what it doesn’t have: phones, e-mail and the general noise and stress of city life. Lava Beds National Monument: The natural beauty of what is, and isn’t, there - July 24, 2005 Lava Beds National Monument: The natural beauty of what is, and isn’t, there www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/0724/life/stories/03life.htm   (743 words)

Lava Beds National Monument - Jefferson Territory Lava Beds National Monument is located in the same region of the Jefferson Territory as the Lower Klamath-Tule Lake Wildlife Refuge. Lava Beds National Monument is located off of Highway 139, 24 miles from Tule Lake and 58 miles from Klamath Falls. Lava Beds gained national recognition in 1925 and achieved monument status in 1933. www.jeffersonterritory.com /magazine/lavabedspg.htm   (485 words)

Lava Beds National Monument Volcanic activity spewed forth molten rock and lava creating a rugged landscape, which was used as a natural fortress by Native Americans in the Modoc Indian War, 1872-73. This volcanic activity formed cinder cones, shield volcanoes, strato volcanoes, lava tubes, both Aa (rough) and Pahoehoe (smooth) lava, spatter cones and chimneys. But by far the most unusual is the high number of lava tubes in this area. volcano.und.nodak.edu /vwdocs/Parks/lava_beds/lava_beds.html   (95 words)

Sierra Club Outings Captain Jack's Legend: Service in Lava Beds National Monument, California 05279A Lava Beds National Monument is one of California's most unusual and least-visited natural sites. Invasive exotic weeds are having a serious environmental impact on Lava Beds National Monument, in addition to many other areas in the West. Lava Beds has a number of bats that are considered "species of special concern." Some use the caves as a home while they raise their young; others use them for hibernation during the winter months. www.sierraclub.org /outings/national/brochure/05279a.asp   (1739 words)

The Shasta Cascade Visitor - Siskiyou County: Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds National Monument straddles Siskiyou and Modoc Counties Lava Beds National Monument offers visitors the chance to explore 46,000 acres of fascinating volcanic landscape. Lava tubes are formed when the outer surface of a lava flow cools and hardens. www.visitormags.com /shastacascade/features/SISKIYOU_LavaBedsNM.html   (514 words)

Lava Beds National Monument page Lava Beds National Monument covers a geographic area that is pock-marked with cinder cones and flooded with ancient lava flows. See, the monument lands are covered with over 300 lava tubes (caves) that were formed when various volcanos and cinder cones were active which can present some challenging fun to the first (second, third...) time cave explorer. A map that describes how to get to Lava Beds from Chico (or central California) (16K PostScript) www.ecst.csuchico.edu /%7Ebeej/lavabeds   (235 words)

Lava Beds National Monument [Lava Beds National Monument] [Crater Lake National Forest] 2500 - 4500 year old Petroglyphs at Petroglyph Point Lave Beds National Monument It was quite evident to us how the landscape, lava beds, and vegetation offered a great stronghold for the Modocs. members.nckcn.com /ttuttle/Travels/California/lavabeds.htm   (382 words)

Lava Beds National Monument on Encyclopedia.com Magazines and Newspapers for: Lava Beds National Monument Pictures and Maps for: Lava Beds National Monument THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE MONUMENTS OF AMERICA; The US is full of stunning landmarks deemed so important they have legal protection. www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-l1avab1eds.asp   (271 words)

NPCA Destination Finder Lava flowed from Mammoth Crater about 30,000 years ago, creating most of the lava tube caves in the monument. Volcanic activity spewed forth molten rock and lava here creating an incredibly rugged landscape - a natural fortress used by the Indians in the Modoc Indian War, 1872-73. Soaring over the crater may be a prairie falcon or violet-green swallows and, occasionally, a raven or a turkey vulture may be seen overhead. syndication.getoutdoors.com /npca/destination_summary/143.html   (103 words)

California Guide - Lava Beds National Monument Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, Arizona - large expanses of lava and ash, with colourful cinder cones The monument has large areas of jumbled lava flows, last deposited as recently as 2,000 years ago, mixed with a variety of volcanic features including cinder buttes, spatter cones, chimneys, craters and especially lava tube caves, of which over 400 have been discovered so far. The surrounding countryside also has craters and extensive patches of lava, continuing east to the Cascades and south towards Lassen Volcanic National Park, all associated with the same tectonic system. www.americansouthwest.net /california/lava_beds/national_monument.html   (205 words)

Modoc NF -Volcanic Scenic Byway The Modoc Volcanic Scenic Byway traverses an area which includes Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Lava Beds National Monument, and portions of the Klamath, Shasta-Trinity, and Modoc National Forests. Recent lava flows, obsidian glass flows and large domes of pumice material blanket the area. Besides the mountains of obsidian, visitors can see surface flows of many types of lava that stretch like fingers down the flanks of the volcano, pillow lava where flows entered ancient Tule Lake, and some of the world's most extensive and accessible lava tubes. www.fs.fed.us /r5/modoc/recreation/modocscenicbyway.shtml   (425 words)

Lava Beds National Monument and Whiskeytown Shasta Trinity National Recreational Area We headed out to Lava Beds National Monument on a Friday afternoon and ran into some serious traffic getting out of the bay area. Lava Beds National Monument and Whiskeytown Shasta Trinity National Recreational Area Lava Beds is primarily a place where you see and do things, as opposed to simply hike. www.ram.org /ramblings/other/lava_beds_trip_report.html   (609 words)

Lava Beds National Monument. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 Lava Beds National Monument (73 sq mi/189 sq km), Siskiyou and Modoc cos., N Calif., 12 mi/19 km S of Oregon state line. Used as a fortress by Native Americans during Modoc Indian War of 1872–1873. www.bartleby.com /69/2/L02502.html   (87 words)

Motorcycle Lava Beds National Monument, TuleLake, CA - Modoc Lava Beds is located in the middle of a triangular area bordered by Interstate 5, Klamath Falls, Oregon to the north, and Hwy 139 to the east. Under stress from the still liquid and very mobile flow interior, the lava crust broke repeatedly, forming a jumble of frothy-looking plates that were rafted along like blocks of ice on a river. The lava is still black in the picture above because plants haven't even been able to grow in the fields of raw lava. www.pashnit.com /roads/cal/LavaBeds.htm   (1814 words)

Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds National Monument is located about 50 miles from the northern end of the Byway across the state line in California just off of US Hwy 97. This monument is located on the Modoc Volcanic Scenic Byway. There are guided tours available of cinder buttes, volcanic glass flows and almost 200 caves and lava tubes. www.byways.org /browse/byways/2097/places/12059   (186 words)

Lava Beds National Monument Lava Beds National Monument in northeastern California preserves grassland streaked with unusual exhibits of volcanic activity from eruptions that may date back to 960 AD. United States National Park Service: Lava Beds National Monument, California The resulting lava flows produced a vast network of tunnels, nearly 200 caves, several craters, and 100-300-foot cinder cones in an extraordinarily rugged landscape. www.buzzle.com /chapters/travel-and-tourism_adventure-and-specialty-travel_national-parks-and-wilderness-areas_monuments-and-historical-sites_lava-beds-national-monument.asp   (133 words)

Lava Beds National Monument Tulelake, California (National Parks) Lava Beds National Monument Tulelake, California (National Parks) The monument, located between Modoc National Forest and Klamath National Forest in northern California near the Oregon border, is the result of lava that erupted from Medicine Lake volcano centuries ago. Covering 46,500 acres, the monument is characterized by cinder cones, deep chasms and more than 300 lava tube caves of various sizes. www.ohwy.com /ca/l/lavabenm.htm   (144 words)

GeoImages QTVR - Subway Cave The Modoc area is particularly rich in lava tube caves, including Lava Beds National Monument. As molten lava in a volcanic eruption flows downhill it tends to harden first around the outside of the flow. If the end of the flow breaks open, lava from the still-molten center may all run out, leaving a long tubular cave. geoimages.berkeley.edu /GeoImages/QTVR/NorthCalif/InsideSubwayCave.html   (67 words)

Titmice at Lava Beds A gray titmouse is common and approachable in the campground at Lava Beds National Monument, eastern Siskiyou Co., California. It seems that Lava Beds National Monument birds could potentially be of either species, Juniper or Oak Titmouse. I have always thought that the Modoc Plateau was defined as the region east of Tule Lake and Lava Beds NM, west of the Warner Mountains and directly north of the line from Canby to Alturas. montereybay.com /creagrus/titmouse_id.html   (1697 words)

Welcome to Klamath County, Oregon For leisure activities, there is everything from hunting and fishing in the scenic mountains, marshes, lakes and rivers, sight-seeing at the many attractions, including the majestic Crater Lake, the Lava Beds National Monument, or seeing real western history at its museums. Twenty one caves have been opened for spelunkers at the Lava Beds National Monument. These lava tubes include Hopkins Chocolate, named for the rich chocolate glaze covering the ceiling and walls, Skull Ice Cave, named for the ice chamber with a large ice floor and the skulls of bighorn sheep and antelope once found at the entrance, and Big Painted Cave and Symbol Bridge. www.el.com /to/klamathcounty   (644 words)

EO Newsroom: New Images - Provincetown Spit, Cape Cod, Massachusetts This astronaut photograph, taken from the International Space Station, shows the northernmost parts of the Cape Cod National Seashore, also known as Provincetown Spit. Compared to other parts of the world, Cape Cod’s geology is fairly young as well; the major forces shaping the landscape all happened within the last 25,000 years. The orientation of this photograph differs from most maps, with the direction of north to the lower left. earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3   (496 words)

Geology of Lava Beds National Monument Map of the Lava Beds National Monument region and Mount Shasta. The National Park Service website on Lava Beds National Monument is: http://www.nps.gov/labe/index.htm Click here to start a tour of Lava Beds National Monument. 3dparks.wr.usgs.gov /lavabeds   (172 words)

Antiquity: Rock-art image in Fern Cave, Lava Beds National Monument, California: not the AD 1054 (Crab Nebula) supernova.@ HighBeam Research Two panels of rock paintings in the Lava Beds National Monument in California, one at Fern Cave and the other at Symbol Bridge, have been listed as recording the AD 1054 supernova. Rock-art image in Fern Cave, Lava Beds National Monument, California: not the AD 1054 (Crab Nebula) supernova. Scientific analysis of the painting at Fern Cave conclusively indicate that its rock painting is not a depiction of the 1054 supernova www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:20202123&refid=holomed_1   (212 words)

Pointers to Lava Beds National Monument The petroglyph section is located outside the main boundary of the Lava Beds National Monument. So if you were planning to wash or vaccuum it before a trip to the Monument, think again. Mammoth Crater: The mother of all the lava. userpages.umbc.edu /~sjoshi1/nature/labe.html   (746 words)

Bureau of Land Management - Alturas Resource Area More information on indian and white conflicts can be obtained at the Lava Beds National Monument which is managed by the National Park Service. This monument is on the northern border of the Alturas Resource Area and has much information on the Modoc Indian War of 1872-73 plus many fascinating geologic features. The pattern is broken up intermittently by lava flows and other igneous rock formations created from thousands of years of geologic upheaval. www.shastacascade.org /blm/alturas/alturas.htm   (476 words)

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