Thursday, September 01, 2005
Road Trip
UPDATE: Here's a neat link from the USGS for more information about Crater Lake!
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It's not like I haven't been here a gazillion times, but I still love it, it's so awesome:
Yes, the water is really that blue.
Crater Lake - Legend:
Crater Lake was the basis of much local Native American legend, as the stories of its creation have been passed down through the centuries. Local Native Americans witnessed the collapse of Mount Mazama and kept the event alive in their legends. One ancient legend of the Klamath people closely parallels the geologic story which emerges from today's scientific research. The legend tells of two Chiefs, Llao of the Below World and Skell of the Above World, pitted in a battle which ended up in the destruction of Llao's home, Mt. Mazama. The battle was witnessed in the eruption of Mt. Mazama and the creation of Crater Lake.
Crater Lake - Fun Facts:
The lake was actually formed after the collapse of an ancient volcano, posthumously named Mount Mazama. This volcano violently erupted approximately 7,700 years ago. That eruption was 42 times as powerful as the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The basin or caldera was formed after the top 5,000 feet of the volcano collapsed. Subsequent lava flows sealed the bottom, allowing the caldera to fill with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water from rainfall and snow melt, to create the seventh deepest lake in the world at 1,932 feet.
# Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States
# The second deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere
# The seventh deepest lake in the world
# Average lake depth: 1500 feet
# Maximum lake width: 6 miles
# Lake surface elevation: 6176 feet
# Wizard Island height above water: 764 feet
# Precipitation, yearly average: 66 inches
# Snowfall, yearly average: 44 feet
Daily Prayer:
Dear God, nature can be so beautiful.
Do you have an especially beautiful, natural wonder near where you live?
.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
It's not like I haven't been here a gazillion times, but I still love it, it's so awesome:
Yes, the water is really that blue.
Crater Lake - Legend:
Crater Lake was the basis of much local Native American legend, as the stories of its creation have been passed down through the centuries. Local Native Americans witnessed the collapse of Mount Mazama and kept the event alive in their legends. One ancient legend of the Klamath people closely parallels the geologic story which emerges from today's scientific research. The legend tells of two Chiefs, Llao of the Below World and Skell of the Above World, pitted in a battle which ended up in the destruction of Llao's home, Mt. Mazama. The battle was witnessed in the eruption of Mt. Mazama and the creation of Crater Lake.
Crater Lake - Fun Facts:
The lake was actually formed after the collapse of an ancient volcano, posthumously named Mount Mazama. This volcano violently erupted approximately 7,700 years ago. That eruption was 42 times as powerful as the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens. The basin or caldera was formed after the top 5,000 feet of the volcano collapsed. Subsequent lava flows sealed the bottom, allowing the caldera to fill with approximately 4.6 trillion gallons of water from rainfall and snow melt, to create the seventh deepest lake in the world at 1,932 feet.
# Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States
# The second deepest lake in the Western Hemisphere
# The seventh deepest lake in the world
# Average lake depth: 1500 feet
# Maximum lake width: 6 miles
# Lake surface elevation: 6176 feet
# Wizard Island height above water: 764 feet
# Precipitation, yearly average: 66 inches
# Snowfall, yearly average: 44 feet
Daily Prayer:
Dear God, nature can be so beautiful.
Do you have an especially beautiful, natural wonder near where you live?
.
