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Glass Mountain Ridge

Glass Mountain Ridge

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Glass Mountain Ridge is a ridge located in Mono County, California. It reaches an elevation of 10,505 feet (3,202 m).[1]

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The Glass Mountain Ridge forms the northeast boundary of Long Valley Caldera. It consists of a sequence of lava domes, flows, and welded pyroclastic flows of rhyolite composition that were erupted between 2.1 and 0.8 million years ago.[2]

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  1. [1]
    "Glass Mountain Ridge". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 2014-03-03.
  2. [2]
    "Northeast rim of Long Valley Caldera and Glass Mountain, California". Long Valley Observatory. Archived from the original on 2009-09-05. Retrieved 2010-02-02.


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