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S P Crater is a cinder cone volcano 25 miles (40 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. [4] Saddle Crater; South Sheba Crater; Stewart Crater; Strawberry Crater; Sunset Crater is a cinder cone volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, and a part of the Sunset Crater National Monument. [5] The Sproul
Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument. Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes (the San Francisco volcanic field) that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks. [6]
Red Mountain is a volcanic cinder cone located in the Coconino National Forest of northern Arizona, United States, 25 miles northwest of Flagstaff.It rises 1,000 feet (300 m) above the surroundings terrain and is shaped like the letter "U", with its opening towards the west.
Mount Baldy (Western Apache: Dził Łigai White Mountain [5] [6]) is an extinct stratovolcano [4] in eastern Arizona in the United States. With a summit elevation of 11,409 feet (3,477 m), the peak of Mount Baldy rises above the tree line and is left largely bare of vegetation, lending the mountain its current name. [7]
Large volume eruptions of the Southwestern Nevada volcanic field (SWNVF) Caldera name State (volcanic field) age size Black Mountain Caldera (18 km wide) Nevada (SWNVF) 7 Ma ±1: 300 km 3 (72 cu mi) of Thirsty Canyon Tuff. [8] [24] Timber Mountain caldera complex (30 km × 25 km (19 mi × 16 mi)) Nevada (SWNVF) 11.45 Ma
Located approximately 36 miles (58 km) southeast of Willcox, Arizona, the monument preserves the remains of an immense volcanic eruption that shook the region about 27 million years ago. The thick, white-hot ash spewed forth from the nearby Turkey Creek Caldera , cooled and hardened into rhyolitic tuff , laying down almost 2,000 ft (610 m) of ...
A.D. 79: Mount Vesuvius, Italy. Mount Vesuvius has erupted eight times in the last 17,000 years, most recently in 1944, but the big one was in A.D. 17. One of the most violent eruptions in history ...
The Uinkaret volcanic field is an area of monogenetic volcanoes in northwestern Arizona, United States, located on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. [ 2 ] Lava flows from the Uinkaret volcanic field that have cascaded down into the Grand Canyon, damming the Colorado River , have been used to date the canyon's carving. [ 3 ]