Lassen Volcanic National Park ~ The Event and the Mountain Reawakens!
By Jeanean Gendron, Specializing in Selling Unique Properties
(The Address Realty)
Lassen Peaks' May 1914 eruption launched three years of sporadic volcanic outburst. In the largest eruption on May 22, 1915, the peak blew a huge, mushroom-shaped clous of ask over 30,000 feet into the air. The eruption changed the landscape of the surrounding area. The Park was made a National Park in 1916 because of the eruption and the active volcanic landscape. The park is a valuable and natural hydrothermal study of the earth's volcanic landscapes. Lassen hydrothermal areas--Sulphur Works, Bumpass Hell, Little Hot Springs Valley, Boiling Springs Lake, Devils Kitchen and Therminal Geyser offer bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles and boiling water. There is constant change within the landscape with some getting hotter and more acidicand others less so. Lassen Peak is one of many ac...
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