Wikipedia:Today's featured article/September 18, 2012



Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is a U.S. National Monument and National Preserve in the Snake River Plain in central Idaho, at an average elevation of 5900 ft above sea level. The protected area features one of the best-preserved flood basalt areas in the continental United States. The Monument was established on May 2, 1924. In November 2000, a presidential proclamation by President Clinton greatly expanded the Monument area. The National Park Service portions of the expanded Monument were designated as a National Preserve in August 2002. The Monument and Preserve encompass three major lava fields and about 400 sqmi of sagebrush steppe grasslands. All three lava fields lie along the Great Rift of Idaho, with some of the best examples of open rift cracks in the world, including the deepest known on Earth at 800 ft. (more...)

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