Soda Lakes

sopka – Maar(s), United States, North America Volcanic Regions

Kde

United States, North America Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Maar(s)

Nadmořská výška

1 251 m

Tektonické prostředí

Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

39,525°, -118,878°

Two lake-filled maars, Soda Lake and Little Soda Lake, lie NW of the town of Fallon. The basaltic maars were formed subaerially, post-dating the Pleistocene glacial Lake Lahontan, and were estimated to be less than 10,000 years old and perhaps even less than 1,500 years old (Garside and Schilling, 1979; Price and LaPointe, 1998). Soda Lake is about 1.3 x 2 km elongated NE-SW. The 300-m-wide Little Soda Lake lies south of Soda Lake. The late-Pleistocene Upsal Hogback cones lie to the NNE of Soda Lakes. The maars are the site of a geothermal prospect that may have discharged hot springs through the end of the 19th century.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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