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Colorful Cinder

closeup of several small black and reddish stones with many air bubbles, three of the rocks have a shiny multicolored glaze on them

Cinders are ejected early in an eruption and sometimes have a rainbow-colored glaze which could be from trace amounts of metals or the crystalline structure of various elements in the basalt.

NPS / Kensie Stallings

NPS Photo / Kensie Stallings

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Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Code: CRMO

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho
Latitude: 43.0189094543457, Longitude: -113.626800537109

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