Smoking Valley
This valley has a floor of hard packed clay which
is smooth like fired pottery. The entire valley is filled with huge smoking craters. Each
crater is between five and twenty feet across with a two to five foot high lip. The edges
are cracked and worn. These craters actually generate and emit smoke. It is a continuous
phenomena. Undoubtedly some geological phenomenon bubbling beneath the surface of the soil
is the cause but, to date, no one has conducted any studies. The smoking valley is located
in the east arm of the Sentinel Mountains.
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