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The Kings Bowl and Wapi lava fields, both about 2,200 years old, are part of the National Preserve. This lava field is the largest of several large beds of lava that erupted from the 53-mile (85 km) south-east to north-west trending Great Rift volcanic zone, [10] a line of weakness in the Earth's crust.
Hell's Half Acre Lava Field is a basaltic lava plain located on the Snake River Plain of Idaho in the United States. It is the easternmost of the basaltic lava fields on the Snake River Plain, [1] located about 25 miles (40 km) west of Idaho Falls, Idaho and 30 miles (48 km) north of Pocatello, Idaho. [4]
Shoshone Lava Field. The Black Butte Crater Lava Field, formerly known as Shoshone Lava Field is a lava plain in the U.S. state of Idaho, located in Lincoln County north of the city of Shoshone. It is the westernmost of the young lava fields occupying the Snake River Plain. The latest volcanic activity occurred during the Holocene period. [1]
Great Rift of Idaho 1968 Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve 43°27′42″N 113°33′46″W / 43.46167°N 113.56278°W / 43.46167; -113.56278 ( Great
It rises approximately 2500 vertical feet (762 m) above the lava plain in southern Butte County, east of Craters of the Moon National Monument. Big Southern Butte consists of two coalesced lava domes with a base diameter of 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) and a combined volume of approximately 8 cubic kilometres (1.9 cu mi).
The 825,000-acre Lava Lake Ranch, 45 miles east of Hailey and bordered on the east and south by Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, hit the market in late June.
Crater Rings are adjacent, symmetrical volcanic pit craters in the Western Snake River Plain about eight miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho. They are one of few examples of volcanic craters in the continental United States. [1] The craters are at the summit of a broad shield volcano. The eastern crater is about 3000 ft across and 350 ft deep.
Shoshone lava field, North of Twin Falls, Idaho; 8.400 ka ±0.3. [17] Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve; Great Rift of Idaho; the lava field was formed during eight eruptive episodes between about 15 and 2 ka. [18] Kings Bowl and Wapi lava fields formed about 2.250 ka. [19]