Black Crater Volcano
Updated: May 20, 2024 00:50 GMT -
Shield(s) 2210 m / 7251 ft
Oregon, United States, 44.27°N / -121.75°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Oregon, United States, 44.27°N / -121.75°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Black Crater volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
Black Crater is a Pleistocene basaltic-andesite shield volcano SE of Belknap volcano. Trout Creek Butte volcano lies to the SE of Black Crater, and scattered Pleistocene cinder cones lie to the NE.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Black Crater Volcano Photos
Weathered blocks that have fallen down from the steep inner crater walls and a black layer of freshly ejected lapilli and spatter around the vent. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
A stronger strombolian eruption throws bombs to considerable height above the crater, but most of the bombs are hidden in the dense black ash, and only some of them are g...
Oxidized layers of red and black scoria in the interior of the crater of the 2002-2003 eruption. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
Aerial view of the central part of the Erta Ale's summit caldera with the north crater (left), south crater (right) and camp site on the caldera rim (centre below). Note ...
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