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Crater Lake

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Crater Lake

Thousands of volcanoes erupted throughout the western U.S. in the last 60 million years, but most individual craters are too small to show up clearly in the tapestry. Among the larger volcanoes, although still small at this scale, is Crater Lake, located in southwest Oregon.

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Satellite image of Crater LakeImage available from the Cascade Volcano Observatory
Photo by W. E. Scott
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