Lunar Crater

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), United States, North America Volcanic Regions

Kde

United States, North America Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Pyroclastic cone(s)

Nadmořská výška

2 255 m

Poloha

38,480°, -115,970°

The Lunar Crater volcanic field in central Nevada contains almost 100 Pliocene-Pleistocene volcanic vents cutting across the Oligocene Lunar Lake caldera. The most distinctive feature of the field is Lunar Crater, a 1-km-wide, 130-m-deep maar. Several NE-trending chains of cinder cones occur within the field, which contains lava flows up to 6 km long. The ages of the youngest lava flow, the Black Rock flow, was considered to be early Holocene (Luedke and Smith, 1981), but a cosmogenic exposure age of 38,000 +/- 10,000 years was obtained from the Black Rock flow (Shepard et al., 1995).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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