#volcanic plug

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"Reinsee by the Pico Cão Grande (Great Dog Peak), the steepest volcanic plug in the world, with a height of 663 m, rising 370 m almost vertically over the surrounding terrain. It is the most prominent feature of Parque Natural Ôbo (Ôbo Natural Park)"

Caué district, São Tomé and Príncipe. June 8, 2025

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Isle of Skye (2) (3) (4) by Nick Fendall

Via Flickr:

(1) The Old Man of Storr. (2) The Quiraing. (3) A Ewe with her lambs. (4) Neist Point Lighthouse.     

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Morro Bay Harbor, CA (No. 3)

Morro Bay is the name of the large estuary that is situated along the northern shores of the bay itself. The larger bay on which the local area lies is Estero Bay, which also encompasses the communities of Cayucos and Los Osos. The city of Morro Bay is 20 km (12 mi) northwest of San Luis Obispo and is located on Highway 1. Los Osos Creek discharges into Morro Bay.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 10.3 square miles (27 km2), of which, 5.3 square miles (14 km2) of it is land and 5.0 square miles (13 km2) of it (48.63%) is water.

Source: Wikipedia

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The Great ACT-NSW-NZ Trip, 2023-2024 - Taranaki Ringplain

After Pohokura we spent a couple of days on the west coast of North Island - specifically, in the vicinity of Taranaki/Mt. Egmont, a young stratovolcano that is the most recent volcano in a long sequence of slowly migrating volcanism in the area. The hills to the northwest, and the plugs at the coast at New Plymouth, are all that remain of its predecessors. In fact, the entire ring of flattish and highly fertile land in Taranaki is the result of the repeated catastrophic collapse of the volcanoes over the last 1.75 million years.

The photo below was taken from Cape Egmont 30 kilometers from the volcano. Even out here there are layers of fridge-sized boulders deposited by the giant volcanic landslides.

The plugs at New Plymouth, 1.75 myo.

Historically, the area consisted of a narrow coastal plain covered by bracken, tutu, rewarewa and karaka trees, with anywhere not close to the coast covered in dense forest.

From about 1823 the Māori began having contact with European whalers and flax traders. English settlers were first dropped here in 1841, and within a year were trying to deal with plagues of the rats they brought with them.

The stuff we saw on the volcano itself I'll cover seperately, but there was no shortage of species in New Plymouth, along the coast, at Lake Mangamahoe, and where we were staying.

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Volcanic plugs

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Agathla Peak by James Marvin Phelps Via Flickr: Agathla Peak Navajo County Arizona October 2021