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  • Stein's earth driller's eye estimated that the landslide from the demolished cindercone bulked at no less than half a million cubic meters.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • The explosions and ashfall exterminated all vegetation within a two-mile radius of the cindercone now known as Sunset Crater, for the fiery red cast of its cinders.

    Signs of the Times 2009

  • I had an accident hiking down the mountain that night that had nothing to do with the volcano/lava but everything to do with the fact that my companion took my flashlight and I couldn’t see my feet and the trail and fell down the hillside of an old extinct cindercone.

    To the Ends of the Earth cjohnson 2006

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