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Interior of Amboy Crater showing a lava lake and the distant breach in the cinder cone rim. Interior of Amboy Crater from near breach showing lava lakes. Amboy Crater is a dormant cinder cone volcano that rises above a 70-square-kilometer (27 sq mi) lava field in the eastern Mojave Desert of southern California, within Mojave Trails National Monument.
Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054 ... Amboy Crater - 300 - 984 23 million years ago 79,000 ± 5,000 years ago ...
Name Image Date Location County Ownership Description Amboy Crater: May 1973: San Bernardino: Federal (Bureau of Land Management) A 6,000-year-old volcanic cinder cone, made up of pahoehoe, just off historic U.S. Highway 66.
Salt Ponds of Amboy. The town is south of the Granite Mountains, Providence Mountains, and the Mojave National Preserve. Adjacent to the south is the landmark Amboy Crater, and beyond to the southeast the Bullion Mountains. To the south is Bristol Dry Lake and the community of Cadiz, California. [citation needed]
Amboy Crater, as viewed from the east. Schonchin Butte from Cave Loop Road. Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho; Cinder Cone and the Fantastic ...
Amboy has been beset by a series of crises that stretch back more than half a century. But owner Kyle Okura hopes to turn it around. No less than his father's legacy is at stake.
The world-famous Meteor Crater and Barringer Space Museum in Arizona is a stunning natural wonder, with a wealth of interesting stops along the way. Beyer's Byways: Destination Meteor Crater in ...
The Bristol Mountains are found in the Mojave Desert of California, USA, just west of Mojave National Preserve.The range, which reaches an elevation of 3,874 feet (1,181 m), is located in San Bernardino County, and crosses Interstate 40 between Ludlow and the Granite Mountains.