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Pages in category "Volcanoes of Idaho" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Big Southern Butte;
The Bruneau-Jarbidge volcanic field, also known as the Bruneau-Jarbidge eruptive center [1] is located in present-day southwest Idaho. The volcano erupted during the Miocene, between ten and twelve million years ago, spreading a thick blanket of ash in the Bruneau-Jarbidge event.
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Big Southern Butte is the largest and youngest (300,000 years old) of three rhyolitic domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern Snake River Plain in the U.S. state of Idaho. [5] It is one of the largest volcanic domes on earth. [4]
The volcanoes forming the two major Menan Buttes were created when basaltic magma came into contact with a shallow aquifer or with the precursor of the modern Snake River. Particles of volcanic glass called tachylite were created as the water turned to steam and explosively fragmented the hot magma.
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Craters of the Moon within Idaho. Craters of the Moon is in south-central Idaho, midway between Boise and Yellowstone National Park. The lava field reaches southeastward from the Pioneer Mountains. Combined U.S. Highway 20–26–93 cuts through the northwestern part of the monument and provides access to it. However, the rugged landscape of ...
East Butte and line parent Big Southern Butte were major landmarks for early explorers and pioneers. [4] The remote mountain is situated over 40 miles east of Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, 32 miles west of the community of Idaho Falls, and can be seen from Highway 20 midway between Idaho Falls and Arco at milepost 274.