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S P Crater is a cinder cone volcano 25 miles (40 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. [4] Saddle Crater; South Sheba Crater; Stewart Crater; Strawberry Crater; Sunset Crater is a cinder cone volcano in the San Francisco volcanic field, and a part of the Sunset Crater National Monument. [5] The Sproul
Large volume volcanic eruptions in the Basin and Range Province include Basin and Range eruptions in Utah, California, Idaho, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Wyoming and Oregon, as well as those of the Long Valley Caldera geological province and the Yellowstone hotspot.
The Peridot Mesa vent is a part of the San Carlos volcanic field located in San Carlos, Arizona, United States on the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation.The mesa is about 3 km (1.9 mi) in diameter and is capped by a basalt flow 3 to 6 meters thick that originated from a volcanic cone located in the Southwest corner of the mesa.
Vulcan's Throne is a cinder cone volcano and a prominent landmark on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States. [4] The volcano is adjacent the Colorado River, (thousands of feet above the river) as it is the source material for Lava Falls and Lava Falls Rapids (Vulcan Rapids) one of the largest rapids of the Colorado.
Strawberry Crater is a cinder cone volcano, more than 1,000 feet (300 m) high, in the San Francisco volcanic field, 20 miles (32 km) north of Flagstaff, Arizona. [6] It is along Forest Road 545 between the Wupatki National Monument and Sunset Crater National Monument in the Strawberry Crater Wilderness. [ 5 ]
Springerville volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field located in east-central Arizona between Springerville and Show Low.The field consists of 405 discrete vents [3] covering approximately 3,000 square kilometers (1,200 sq mi) [2] and is the third-largest such field in the continental United States; [4] only the San Francisco volcanic field and Medicine Lake volcanic field are larger. [5]
August 1951: No tropical cyclones are known to have affected Arizona in the 1940s. However, in the 1950s, the remnants of two more storms affected the state. On August 24, 1951, the moisture from a hurricane that made landfall in Baja California moved over the state, producing more than 5.00 inches (127 mm) of precipitation over southwestern ...
Red Mountain is a volcanic cinder cone located in the Coconino National Forest of northern Arizona, United States, 25 miles northwest of Flagstaff.It rises 1,000 feet (300 m) above the surroundings terrain and is shaped like the letter "U", with its opening towards the west.