As the textbook mentions "The Hawaiian island chain is the visible portion of a series of massive volcanoes" (360). Now most of us would not associate volcanoes with Vegas (the only one that may come to mind is the fake one that sits in front of the Mirage hotel), but a little further north of Las Vegas there is a volcano. The Timber Mountain volcano is 1675 meters in elevation, and last erupted a little less than 10000 years ago. The Timber Mountain volcano is not the only volcano in Nevada, there are more than ten most of which are inactive, but are volcanoes nonetheless. The volcanoes in Nevada are all, for the most part, either hawaiite or alkali basalt in composition which is the main difference between these volcanoes and the volcanoes of the Hawaiian islands that are considered to be shield volcanoes made of fluid lava flows. Las Vegas is often referred to as Hawaii's ninth island (due to the high native Hawaiian population that lives there) and rightfully so as it seems that both have a lot more in common than meets the eye.
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