Lassen Creek Obsidian

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Color: Lassen Creek Obsidian ranges from black to black and red, and purple.

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Lassen Creek Obsidian has a large outcroppings on a hill northeast of Buck Mountain which is the head of Lassen Creek in the Warner Mountains, Modoc County, California. Part of the Buck Mountain geochemical group.

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