Visual arts are celebrated with original exhibits by local artists in Maysvilleâs galleries and many local businesses. The Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, located on Sutton Street, is home to the exquisite Kathleen Savage Browning Miniature Collection.
About 100,000 years ago, the most recent of these eruptions formed the Mammoth Knolls, low hills just north of the Town of Mammoth Lakes. Mammoth Mountain, a young volcano on the rim of Long Valley Caldera, was built by numerous eruptions between 220,000 and 50,000 years ago.
The most common type of mountain is a fold mountain. Fold mountains form when continental tectonic plates are pushed together, like the Himalayas in South Asia. Tectonic plates make up the Earth's crust (both the continents and the ocean floor) and are like puzzle pieces floating around on the mantle below.