Yep, Pisgah Crater has the wrong type of magma for the sort of eruption this clown was suggesting all the while in his presentation he was pointing out the lava flows.
BTW, isn't Pisgah also merely sleeping, not dead?
The burning tires routine in the middle of Amboy Crater has been going on since the 1950's. The Bakersfield Californian once ran a local resident's account of back in the 1950's or even late 1940's ditching high school classes and making a day trip out to Amboy in an old pickup filled with tires and dumping them in the middle of Amboy Crater and setting them on fire. The incident got quite a stir.Somehow the authorities amazingly tracked it back to the guilty Bako high schoolers who got suspended from school as you might imagine.
Kimmer
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Lin Kerns <linkerns@gmail.com> wrote:
I so agree with Kim. This is such a bad hoax. Anyone who has ever been out there and has seen Pisgah crater knows that it's being "mined" for its basalt, as it produced mostly aa lava about 8,000-10,000 years ago. It's no longer near as well formed as Amboy, which by the way, is considered dormant by USGS and not extinct.
Locals take advantage with that information and about every 10 years, some jerks will take some tires out to Amboy, set them on fire, and fool folks into thinking, as they pass along on Route 66, that there is an ongoing eruption. Geez, even I could think of a better practical joke than that.
Lin
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