Colorful cones in the crater of Haleakala Volcano, HI
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- Margery H. Freeman
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- Haleakala National Park, Hawaii
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- This photograph copyright ©2009. All Rights Reserved
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Colorful cinder cones in the crater of Haleakala Volcano, HI, Haleakala National Park, Hawaii. The cones are tinted red, orange, green, and yellow by the deposition of richly-hued ash and rock.
Haleakala Volcano, also known as the East Maui Volcano, is a enormous shield volcano that makes up more than 75% of the island of Maui. It towers at an elevation of 10,000 feet. The crater is almost 7 miles across, 2 miles wide, and 2,600 feet deep. It is actually not volcanic in origin, but is located at the point where two large erosional valleys merged. Haleakala is a dormant but active volcano, and experienced volcanic activity as recently as the 1600s along its southwest rift zones.
