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The Pahvant Butte volcano consists of an asymmetrical tuff cone with a breach on its southwestern side — and a platform area that extends to the southeast of the cone, formed of beds of tephra dipping steeply away from the cone, and partly concealing a mound of near horizontally-bedded sideromelane tephra beneath.
The Black Rock Desert volcanic field in Millard County, Utah, is a cluster of several volcanic features of the Great Basin including Pahvant Butte, The Cinders, and Tabernacle Hill. [1] The field's Ice Springs event was an explosive eruption followed by lava flows that were Utah's most recent volcanic activity (1140–1440 AD).
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption
The Markagunt Plateau is in southern Utah in the counties Iron County, Garfield County and Kane County. [4] Cedar City lies west and Kanab south of the volcanic field, [5] which is crossed by Utah State Route 14, Utah State Route 143 and Utah State Route 148. [4] Towns in the area include Duck Creek Village and Mammoth Creek. [6]
Newberry Volcano is a large, active, ... Utah, and northern California. These include the eruption that produced the Paulina Creek tephra between 55,000 and 50,000 ...
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Fumarole Butte is a shield volcano in central Juab County, Utah, United States. [1] Built during the Quaternary period, it is composed of basaltic andesite. It stands 207 meters (679 ft) in height and has a diameter of 12 kilometers (7 mi). Under the volcano lies Crater Bench, the result of an eruption of basaltic andesite.
Bald Knoll, also called Black Knoll, Buck Knoll or Corral Knoll, [3] is a cinder cone in Utah, in the Southwestern United States.. It is the youngest volcano at the southwest portion of the Paunsaugunt Plateau and it consists of basaltic lava with a well-preserved volcanic crater at its summit.