Lassen Peaks' May 1914 eruption launched three years of sporadic volcanic outburst. In the largest eruption on May 22, 1915, the peak blew a huge, mushroom-shaped clous of ask over 30,000 feet into the air. The eruption changed the landscape of the surrounding area. The Park was made a National Park in 1916 because of the eruption and the active volcanic landscape. The park is a valuable and natural hydrothermal study of the earth's volcanic landscapes.

Lassen hydrothermal areas--Sulphur Works, Bumpass Hell, Little Hot Springs Valley, Boiling Springs Lake, Devils Kitchen and Therminal Geyser offer bubbling mud pots, steaming fumaroles and boiling water. There is constant change within the landscape with some getting hotter and more acidicand others less so.

Lassen Peak is one of many active, dormant, or extinct volcanoes found around the Pacific Ocean in a Ring of Fire. On this seismic zone, edges of plates that form Earth's crust grind against each other and one plate subducts or sinks down. Subduction creates molten rock--magma--at the plate margins. As the magma rises into the continental crust, it becomes the feeding chamber of volcanoes.

On the morning of June 14: 1914, B.F. Loomis aimd his camera at Lassen Peak and exposed a series of glass plate negatives that captured an eruption as it unfolded. The eruption occurred at 9:43 a.m. ad was the most powerful event to that dat.

The photographis are blown up to large scale and on display at the Loomis Museum. These are digital photos of the displays.

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