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Lava plug from extinct volcano near La Veta, CO

Lava Plug Near La Veta, CO

by JHF on March 2, 2011 · 2 comments

in Southern Colorado

The interior of an old volcano exposed! View from the side of the road near La Veta on the way to Walsenburg, CO.

david culbertson March 3, 2011 at 12:08 pm

oh that’s what that is? i drove by it lot of times wondering bout the strange formation

JHF March 3, 2011 at 1:36 pm

I’m making an educated guess here. There are lots of places with extruded lava in this part of the world. That should be a lava plug, with the cinder cone long ago eroded, possibly filling in that valley.

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