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Wes Hildreth mapping in the Long Valley Caldera

By California Volcano Observatory
An older male geologist in hiking pants and a fisherman's hat sits on a boulder in the midst of red and yellow high desert wildflowers. He is taking notes in a small field notebook. Rolling volcanic hills rise above him in the background, with the Long Valley caldera edge bounded by sharp snow-covered peaks in the distance.
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Wes Hildreth, CalVO volcanologist, takes field notes amid the wildflowers in Long Valley Caldera in the Eastern Sierra.

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