played around with gradient maps - I just found out there was a less convoluted way to use them

OH OH OK I GOT A QUESTION. whats the youngest like, volcano in the san francisco volcanic field

Sunset Crater!!!!!!!!! My favorite volcano everrrrrr, it erupted around the year 1050 so it's very recent in geologic terms - it's about 950 years old. It also means the San Francisco volcanic field is still active (not Sunset Crater though, that is a cinder cone so they only erupt once and then it's over - we call that a monogenetic volcano). Sunset Crater National Monument is managed by the NPS near Flagstaff. The red is from oxidized basalt (contains iron). Also, the Sinagua people in the area witnessed the eruption, safely evacuated, and eventually relocated to areas like Wupatki and Walnut Canyon due to volcanic soil allowing the areas to be farmable. I am a volcanologist so I understand the in-depth geology of Sunset Crater better than the historical and cultural significance, but I do recommend doing your own reading on it if that interests you too cuz I always think it's incredibly neat how human and volcanoes are so intertwined with one another, one way or another.

btw...Sunset Crater also makes a lot of "cameos" in my story Uranium Rush cuz the fictional town of Sandstone Springs is nearby it. If you ever see me draw a reddish looking volcano cone in the desert that isn't the San Francisco Peaks (Very large, jagged, has snow) it's most likely Sunset Crater! Anyways...from my understanding, every hill in Northeast Arizona is actually a cinder cone, so I think that is super neat...and there's like 600 of them in the area.

Also, SP Crater is the 2nd youngest at about 5.5k - 6.0k years old, still seems pristine bc its crater rim is compose of resistant lava. (Sunset Crater has a tiny bit of crater collapse which you can see on the left side in the previous image)

Thank you so much for the ask!

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The San Francisco Volcanic Field is my fave volcanic feature ever. Like guys they put volcanoes on Route 66!!!!!!!!!

Honestly I would answer any questions y'all have about them too. I love talking about volcanoes especially ones that the public knows less about

Doodle of the crater rim of the infamously named "SP Crater"

You have GOT to be kidding me. They will just name volcanoes anything.

Epigenised (Opal-CT, Lussatite) Helix Ramondi snail fossil, from Dallet, Puy-De-Dôme, France.

Doodle of the crater rim of the infamously named "SP Crater"

Going thru something sinister with my art rn I think I'm just really tired of upholding the whole "I hope people mistake me for a cartoon network artist" vibe at least for now and I wanna break out of it, and I wanna get comfortable again with sharing messier doodles instead of just polished looking stuff

There is like no tutorials on digital painting on yewchewb for stylized/experimental artists it's all realistic or semi-realistic or anime painting techniques and I'm like....I guess I just gotta throw random brushes around and see what happens

Doodle of the crater rim of the infamously named "SP Crater"

Colla Wood Piece - Petrified Wood

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I love being a fallout 76 player bc no one really talks about this game unless it's helpful information on gameplay or people sharing off their bases, all cuz the original release of this game warded off so many people and made them hate the game

all sorts of echoes in these caverns

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Puʻu ʻŌʻō

Photographed from the air, this is Puʻu ʻŌʻō, the primary vent where Kīlauea erupted from 1983 to 2018.

This vent is no longer actively erupting and in 2018, the eruption moved to several fissures that opened in Leilani Estates (a residential neighborhood built in the Lower East Rift Zone of Kīlauea. Since the 2018 Lower Puna eruption ended, all subsequent eruptions have stayed within Halemaʻumaʻu (the main crater of Kīlauea). This may change in future eruptions, however.

Puʻu ʻŌʻō, Kīlauea Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaiʻi

“Fujisan in Deep Blue” (Right-hand screen)  1917  Yokoyama Taikan