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Malpais Lava Beds Historic Marker
Malpais Lava Beds Historic Marker
Malpais Lava Beds Historic Marker

Malpais Lava Beds Historic Marker

Dateca. 1961
Medium35 mm slide
Dimensions7/8 × 1 5/16 in. (2.3 × 3.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Caroline Bowdish
Object numberPA2021.049.141
DescriptionSignage at the Malpais Lava Beds reads: "This great lava flow is one of the most-recent in the United States. Some of the formations appear as though they had bubbled forth only yesterday". The sign is yellow and sits in a field against a purple sky.

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