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Image of the Week: August 22 - 28, 2004

Subway Cave

Subway Cave, a lava tube

Lava Tube, Hat Creek Valley, California

Typical cross section of a lava tube.
Lava tubes form in some basaltic lava flows as the lava cools and solidifies on the outer margins but remains fluid towards the middle.

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Links

Go to Subway Cave USFS
Go to USGS Photo Glossary: Lava tube
Go to The Virtual Cave: Virtual Lava Tube Home Page
Go to CVO Menu - Lava Tubes and Lava Tube Caves
Go to CVO Website - Lava Tubes and Lava Tube Caves
Go to Lava Tubes - VolcanoWorld
Go to Thurston Lava Tube - VolcanoWorld
Go to Lava Tube Caves - Resource Links Oregon L5 Society
Go to Artemis Project: How Lava Tubes Form
Go to Lava Tube Caves in Kenya
Go to LAVA TUBES OF HARRAT KISHB
Go to World's Longest LAVA TUBES
Go to Lava Beds National Monument: A Hidden World of Lava Tube Caves
Go to Earth Science Picture of the Day
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Go to LCC Earth Science WEB LINKS Page

CLICK on the colored links above to go to those LCC Web Pages.
LCC Image of the Week 12-03-04
David Cordero
dcordero@lcc.ctc.edu