Crater Lake, Wizard Island, Oregon #1
by Theodore Clutter
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Crater Lake, Wizard Island, Oregon #1
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Theodore Clutter
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Photograph - Photograph
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Crater Lake National Park, in Oregon. A crater lake forms in a volcanic crater or a caldera. Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States at 1,949 ft. Fed by rain and snow, it is one of the clearest lakes in the world. Wizard Island is a volcanic cinder cone at the west end of Crater Lake. The cone is capped by a crater about 500 feet wide and 100 feet deep. Wizard Island was created after Mount Mazama, a large stratovolcano, erupted violently 7,700 years ago, forming the caldera which now contains Crater Lake. Following the eruption that formed the lake basin, smaller eruptions over the next several hundred years formed several cinder cones on the caldera floor. The highest of these cones, and the only one to rise above the current lake level, is Wizard Island, which rises over 2,700 feet above the lowest point on the caldera floor and the deepest point in the lake.
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August 29th, 2018
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