Travel-World Photography
Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff , and is desinated a National Monument. Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks. The date of the eruptions that formed the 340-meter high cone began between AD 1064–1065. More recent geologic and archaeological evidence places the eruption around AD 1085.
When we visited in 1971, Our 10 year old daughter and myself climbed to the top, two steps forward and sliding one step back in the very loose lava gravel. Damage from hikers has since forced the National Park Service to close a trail leading to the crater.
Nearby, the Wupatki Pueblo is the largest free-standing pueblo structure in Northern Arizona. 900 years ago, it was the largest trading center for 50 miles. Wupatki National Monument protects over 2,600 ancestral Puebloan sites 20 km north of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.
In this folder, there are a few pictures of Barringer Crater, witch was created by a meteor impact about 50,000 years ago. It is located about 60 km east of Flagstaff. The Crater is about 1,200 m in diameter, some 170 m deep, and is surrounded by a rim that rises 45 m above the surrounding plains. The center of the crater is filled with 210–240 m deep rubble lying above crater bedrock. The crater is considered to be the "best-preserved meteorite crater on Earth.
