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- Basalt Mortar
Description: Basalt mortar or grinding bowl. Dimensions: 6.5(Height),13.3 cm(Diam). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Exploring the Bonito Lava Flow, 1964
Description: Apollo astronauts John Young (left) and Neil Armstrong (center) with a Branch of Astrogeology trainer exploring the Bonito Lava Flow in 1964. Prior to the first successful moon landing, scientists thought the rough lava-flow surface was likely how the surface of the moon would be. Collection: Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. - Basalt Pottery Anvil
Description: Basalt pottery anvil. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Basalt Mano
Description: Rectangular basalt two-handed bifacial mano. Dimensions: 18.5 cm (L), 10.0 cm (W), 3.27 cm (Th). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Effigy Vessel
Description: Miniature Sunset Red effigy vessel with a round mouth, loop handle, and two knobs projecting from the front. Dimensions: Unknown. Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Miniature Sunset Red Smudged Bowl
Description: Miniature Sunset Red Smudged bowl. Dimensions: 6.1 cm (H), 9.4 cm (Diam). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Testing "Grover" at Sunset Crater Volcano NM
Description: The "Grover" - short for geologic rover - was tested on the Bonito Lava Flow in Sunset Crater Volcano NM in 1964, as well. Driving the "Grover" are Gene Cernan (fore) and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt, both of whom walked on the moon as members of Apollo 17 in 1972. The lunar rover they drove while there remains at the Taurus-Littrow landing site. Collection: USGS Open-File Report 2005-1190, Figure 097c; NASA photo S-72-54502. - Suiting Up
Description: Gene Shoemaker, Jerry Harbor, or Gene Phillippi suiting up to test equipment in Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Collection: USGS Open-File Report 2005-1190, Figure 016g. - Basalt Cylinder
Description: Cylinder made from scoriaceous basalt. The maker ground the stone to create this shape with rounded ends, but the function is unknown. Dimensions:8.6 cm (L), 2.73 cm (Diam). Collection: On display at Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Lava Stone with Corn Impressions
Description: Piece of a'a lava stone with several prehistoric corn cob impressions. Dimensions: 25.0 cm (L), 25.0 cm (W), 15.0 cm (TH), irregular shape. Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Sunset Red Smudged Bowl
Description: Sunset Red Smudged bowl. Dimensions: 7.3 cm (Ht), 12.8 cm (rim diam). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Miniature Rio de Flag Brown Bowl
Description: Miniature Rio de Flag Brown bowl with irregular incisions on one side. Dimensions: 1.97 in (Height), 0.2 in (TH), 2.8 in (Diam), 1.46 in (Neck Diam). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - Tree-ring Sample
Description: Dendrochronology sample from a Douglass Fir dating from the pith at A.D. 1013 to the outside ring at A.D. 1120. The ring marked "1064" is the most commonly accepted date for the eruption of the Sunset Crater volcano. Dimensions: 6.75 in (L), 1 in (Th). Collection: On display at the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Visitor Center (catalog card). - 7 01
- Geology Training on the Bonito Lava Flow, 1964
Description: Astronauts C.C. Williams, Frank Borman, and Gene Cernan with Branch of Astrogeology trainer Dale Jackson on the Bonito Lava Flow in 1964. Collection: USGS Open-File Report 2005-1190, Figure 014e; NASA photo S-64-23729, 30 April 1964.