Clayton Valley Volcano
Updated: Apr 20, 2024 05:22 GMT -
Pyroclastic cone 1490 m / 4888 ft
Nevada, United States, 37.82°N / -117.62°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Nevada, United States, 37.82°N / -117.62°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Clayton Valley volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
Time | Mag. / Depth | Distance / Location | |||
Apr 16, 01:50 am (Los Angeles) | 1.1 5.1 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the E | 7 km W of Goldfield, Nevada | Info | |
Thursday, April 11, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Apr 11, 02:17 pm (Los Angeles) | 1.3 5 km | 29 km (18 mi) to the SE | 6 km W of Goldfield, Nevada | Info | |
Tuesday, April 9, 2024 GMT (1 quake) | |||||
Apr 9, 05:28 am (Los Angeles) | 1.3 5.3 km | 30 km (18 mi) to the SE | 6 km W of Goldfield, Nevada | Info |
Background
A solitary cinder cone in Clayton Valley NE of Silver Peak is Potassium-Argon dated about 0.39 million years ago. The breached cone has produced a 2-km-long lava flow partly buried by Quaternary alluvium (Dohrenwend, in Wood and Kienle 1990).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information