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Aerial view toward the north of the Inyo Craters, Deer Mountain, and South Deadman flow. The Inyo Craters and the crater atop Deer Mountain were formed by a series of steam-driven explosions caused by magma heating the groundwater. Magma never reached the surface as it moved beneath this southern-most end of the Inyo Chain. Before these steam explosions, however, magma had already erupted at the north end of the Inyo chain, generating a series of highly explosive events and lava flows. |
