EXTINCT CINDER CONE MAKES STRIKING AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH
Rising high above the New Mexico plains, a cinder cone, with its surrounding lava flows, attests to the recency of volcanic activity in the area where plateau and mountains are not far apart. Caught from the air during a Department of Agriculture survey, this photograph, taken with the camera pointing straight down into the crater, shows details never visible to an observer at ground level.
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