"BOMBS AND CINDER": PINACATE BIOSPHERE RESERVE

View across a lava field, from the rim of Crater Elegante. The foreground shows large rocks thrown from the erupting volcano, mixed with softer material (brown-coloured tuff) from settled, compacted volcanic ash. The middle distance shows an extensive black lava field, with mountains behind.

Much of the desert floor in the Pinacate Biosphere Reserve is covered with a layer of cinder, consisting of light (air-filled) particles thrown from past volcanic eruptions. The footprints in the image below show that in some regions this cinder layer is very thin. But it covers almost all the desert floor withinin the volcanic region of the Reserve, and the thickest cinder deposits are several metres deep.

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