Description
Lava Beds National Monument is a land with a tumultuous past, both geological and historical. Over the last half-million years, this high desert has experienced volcanic eruptions, creating a very rugged landscape of lava tubes, fumaroles, spatter cones, pit craters, volcanic fields and cinder cones. In 1872 and 1873, the Modoc War took place in this area pitting a band of natives led by Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack) against the army of the United States. The Fleener Chimneys are spatter cones created when very fluid particles of lava ejected from a volcanic vent fell back to the vent and plastered themselves together to form chimney like structures. The Fleener Chimneys are located in Lava Beds National Monument, California, USA.
