The Crater Lake caldera shows a particularly striking pattern of lava flows.
Sometimes, the results of science can be a little cryptic. But other times, data can be as beautiful as it is information rich. Betsy Mason over at Wired Science has a gallery of geological maps of volcanoes that demonstrate exactly that
, with a rainbow of colors indicating different types of rock and lava flows from millennia of eruptions. Which mountain is your favorite?
Image courtesy of USGS