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Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
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A Trip to the Moon: website for the new Idaho Public Television special on Craters of the Moon
 
Interview with Doug Neighbor, Superintendent of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve (Part of the Boise State Radio series "New Horizons in Education")
 
Interview with Robert Limbert historian and film maker, Steve Wursta (Part of the Boise State radio series "New Horizons in Education)
 

Geological Animations (Developed by BLM staff and the University of California at Santa Barbara)

  • Eruptive Periods along the Great Rift
    Shows the evolution of the Craters of the Moon lava fields over the last 15,000 years.
  • Great Rift
    Shows a close-up view of the Great Rift and possible mechanisms by which features visible today on the surface were created.
  • Tree Molds
    Illustration of the process by which the imprint of charred trunks remains after contact with lava.
  • Rafted Blocks
    Shows the transport of large chunks of a cinder cone by lava flows.

 
President Calvin Coolidge  

Did You Know?
"a weird and scenic landscape peculiar to itself" is how President Calvin Coolidge described Craters of the Moon when he established this National Monument in 1924. Craters of the Moon is perhaps the only officially "weird" park in the National Park System.

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Last Updated: March 27, 2009 at 17:27 EST