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Buffalo Valley volcano

Volcanic field 1750 m / 5741 ft
Nevada, United States, 40.35°N / -117.3°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Buffalo Valley volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
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Background:

A group of cinder cones and lava flows in the Buffalo Valley north of the Oligocene Fish Creek Mountains caldera range in age from 3.05 to 0.92 million years ago (Dohrenwend, in Wood and Kienle 1990).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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