Beyond the Moon Crater Myth: A New History of the Aniakchak Landscape; A Historic Resource Study for Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Beyond the Moon Crater Myth: A New History of the Aniakchak Landscape; A Historic Resource Study for Aniakchak National Monument and PreserveA sun-flooded earth floor of thirty square miles encircled by sold cliffs 3000 feet high. A mountain-walled ring six-and three-fourths miles in diameter, twenty one miles in circum ference. So tremendous was it that the mind at first grasped only a chaos of primitive col ors - brilliant red, terra corta, ivory, black, orange and blue. Then details began to grow clear: Painted walls in a wide-swinging area.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.