Newberry Crater and beyond!

7th Aug 2008
A look around the obsidian flows of Newberry Crater, and the drive down to Crater Lake (National Park) where I chickened out of flying the plane. With hindsight, a good choice! Then just south of Crater Lake there is the Natural Bridge where the Rogue River flows through a portion of a lava tube.

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Education

Tags:

• Newberry
• Crater
• Lake
• obsidian
• volcanic
• national
• park
• natural
• bridge
• dirt
• road
• driving
• tour
• pacific
• lava
• magma
• pretty

[TonyBtheEG]

Nice.

[DonnZ0r]

Wasn't obsidian the material Hunter&Gatherers used for knifes and speartips?

[LucidFlight]

re: never heard anyone listen to techno in a car

Sounds more like trance... almost psy trance! w00t!

[jebus6kryst]

Stunning.

[MaxSafeheaD]

Only a tiny fraction of igneous rock was magma that made it to the surface without crystalising. If it spends a lot of time close to it's melting point the first minerals to crystalise out have a lot of time to find similar others to bond with so you get bigger crystals.

The more acidic chemicals have a lower melting temperature so the slower magma rises the more acidic it will become relative to it starting composition.

[jakrum]

Run fat boy run ;) Great vid this makes me want to return to the states and see the wonderful scenery. the last time i visited i drove through the smoky mountains, it was breath taking.

[ScaryZeeba]

Its to bad you did not get a chance to film the lava tubes south of bend. I love that place one of the best places to camp I think you can see ever star out there.

[neuvosto]

Having watched all of these "road trip" videos of yours made me want to do something similar.

Too bad Finland doesn't have any really cool sights or interesting geology. It'just... trees, trees and more trees.

[recoordant]

1:12-1:16, lol.

[iggy4323]

yeah, that's a good one.