The landscape is a recently formed set of basaltic lava flows that creates a foreboding landscape of sharp obsidian, cinder and spatter cones, twisted rivers of solidified rock, pit craters, and a network of caves from lava tubes.
Published Oct 16, 2005
Three new national monuments in Southern California connect with existing protected areas to form the world’s second-largest desert preserve.
Published Mar 13, 2016
The rugged canyons slicing through plateaus in New Mexico’s Bandelier National Monument contain relics from human civilization that date back 11,000 years.
Published Feb 10, 2016
Tall, branch-like cacti provide shelter for animals at the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.
Published Dec 4, 2016
It one of the oldest parks in the United States, created in 1902 by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Published Jan 23, 2005
The dunes at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan are a geological wonder.
Published Jun 26, 2016
Old, hardened lava flows extend from the caldera of Medicine Lake volcano in northern California.
Published Oct 10, 2017
Acquired April 2, 2002, this natural-color image shows Colorado National Monument and nearby agricultural and residential areas.
Published Mar 6, 2011
One of the largest reservoirs in the United States stands alongside one of the largest national monuments.
Published Jan 23, 2017
Acquired June 24, 2007, this natural-color image shows the eastern half of St. John Island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The area pictured incorporates a national park and national monument.
Published Jan 20, 2011
Soldiers’ National Cemetery, where U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the “Gettysburg Address” in November 1863, appears in this Ikonos satellite image from June 25, 2003.
Published Feb 12, 2009
Acquired September 15, 2000, this natural-color image shows Aniakchak National Monument in Alaska, home to an old caldera, and even older fossils.
Published Oct 12, 2011
In August 2010, Lake Mead reached its lowest level since 1956, the result of a persistent drought and increasing human demand.
Published Sep 23, 2010
