Geography
The arid climate of Baja California limits the amount of vegetation covering the ground and allows the dramatic volcanic features of the landscape to stand out in this natural-color image from the Landsat 7 satellite on October 5, 2000. The landscape is a patchwork of lava flows and the hardened remains of pyroclastic flows — hot clouds of volcanic ash, dust, and rock fragments that race down the slopes of a volcano like an avalanche.
Read more about this topic: Volcanoes Of East-central Baja California
Famous quotes containing the word geography:
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—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)