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The Big Lava Bed, located in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in the southwestern area of the State of Washington, originated from a 500-foot-deep crater in the northern center of the bed. The Big Lava Bed is the youngest feature of the Indian Heaven volcanic field. The 0.9-cubic kilometer lava flow erupted from the cinder cone about 8200 ...
Located on the road to Mammoth Crater, 2.2 mi (3.5 km) from the main park road. 0.4 mi (0.64 km) Big Nasty Trail Named after a rough lava area covered by brush, described as "big and nasty". Starts on Mammoth Crater rim, on the Hidden Valley pullout. 1 mi (1.6 km) Schonchin Butte Trail
The trail is easy to follow – it’s a dirt road – but not well marked. You basically follow the road down the hill, then take the left fork at the first obvious junction.
The trail leads east into and across a large collapse trench, which is a part of the line of major breakdowns coursing through the Cave Loop area. Beyond the climb out of the trench the trail continues east then southeast for 160 feet (49 m) and then drops into the 140 feet (43 m) long and 120 feet (37 m) wide Catacombs Basin.
Cinder Cone lies in Lassen and Shasta counties, in Northern California, within the United States.Located 1.5 mi (2.4 km) southwest of Butte Lake and 2.2 mi (3.5 km) southeast of Prospect Peak [1] (which dwarfs Cinder Cone), [2] it is also sometimes referred to as Black Butte or Cinder Butte. [1]
The Long Valley Caldera was formed by a super-eruption about 760,000 years ago that blasted 140 cubic miles of magma, covering much of east-central California in hot ash that was blown as far away ...
The Big Lava Bed pyroclastic cinder cone has a smooth slope, and produced the Big Lava Bed flow, which represents the newest eruptive activity within the entire Indian Heaven field. Red Mountain, which has an elevation of 4,964 feet (1,513 m), marks the southernmost point of the shield volcanoes in the volcanic field, while Sawtooth Mountain is ...
The Petroglyph Point is an archaeological site within the Lava Beds National Monument, located southeast of Tulelake, California.Petroglyph Point contains one of the largest panels of Native American rock art in the United States.