Menan Buttes Volcano
Updated: Nov 5, 2024 02:44 GMT -
Tuff cone(s) 1713 m / 5620 ft
Idaho, United States, 43.78°N / -111.97°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Idaho, United States, 43.78°N / -111.97°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Menan Buttes volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
North and South Menan Buttes are the two largest of a N-S line of basaltic tuff cones formed by phreatomagmatic eruptions along the Snake River in eastern Idaho. They were considered to be very late Pleistocene, or more probably, early Recent (Holocene) by Hamilton and Myers (1963). Creighton (1987) cites mapping by LaPoint that indicates a middle to late Pleistocene age, as does King (in Wood and Kienle, 1990).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information