Medicine Lake Volcano Medicine Lake Volcano Medicine Lake Volcano is a large shield volcano in northeastern California about northeast of Mount Shasta. The volcano is located in a zone of east-west crustal extension east of the main axis of the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the Cascade Range. The thick shield is from east to west and from north to south, and covers more than . The underlying rock has downwarped by under the center of the volcano. The volcano is primarily composed of basalt and basaltic andesite lava flows, and has a caldera at the center. The Medicine Lake shield rises about above
Name of Croatia the derivation of Proto-Slavic *xъrvatъ from the Old Persian "xaraxwat-", attested by the Old Iranian toponym "Harahvait-", the native name of Arachosia. "Arachosia" is the Latinized form of Ancient Greek Ἀραχωσία ("Arachosíā"); in Old Persian inscriptions, the region is referred to as "" (). In Indo-Iranian it actually means "one that pours into ponds", which derives from the name of the Sarasvati River of Rigveda. However, although the somewhat suggestive similarity, the connection to the name of Arachosia is etymologically incorrect. The first etymological thesis about the name of the Croats stems from Constantine Porphyrogennetos (tenth century), who connected the