Big Pine Volcanic Field Volcano
Updated: Apr 19, 2024 16:54 GMT -
Pyroclastic cone(s) 1950 m / 6398 ft
California, United States, 37.05°N / -118.25°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
California, United States, 37.05°N / -118.25°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Big Pine Volcanic Field volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
The Big Pine (Aberdeen) volcanic field in the Owens Valley contains more than 40 vents over a 1000 km2 region of the Owens Valley. The basaltic field consists of cinder cones that produced lava flows up to 9 km long and a single rhyolitic lava dome. Activity was episodic throughout the Quaternary. Chesterman (1982) considers the latest activity to be of Holocene or late Pleistocene age; other sources attribute the last eruptions to the Pleistocene.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Big Pine Volcanic Field Volcano Photos
View onto Cemoro Lawang village on the caldera rim (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
A barrage of bombs hits the water, some quite far from the shore. (Photo: Iris Karinkanta)
Large boulder that once fell onto the beach at Therasia's harbour (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
The Tengger caldera in the morning (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)