Mineral Mountains-Cove Fort volcano
Updated: Dec 5, 2023 01:32 GMT -
Volcanic field 2770 m / 9088 ft
Utah, United States, 38.58°N / -112.67°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Utah, United States, 38.58°N / -112.67°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Mineral Mountains-Cove Fort volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
| Time | Mag. / Depth | Distance/Location | ||
| Sunday, December 3, 2023 GMT (1 quake) | ||||
| Dec 3, 09:09 am (Denver) (Dec 3, 16:09 GMT) | 1.2 0.2 km | 17 km (10.6 mi) Beaver County, Utah, USA | ||
| Sunday, November 26, 2023 GMT (2 quakes) | ||||
| Nov 26, 02:33 pm (Denver) (Nov 26, 21:33 GMT) | 1.2 0.5 km | 18 km (11 mi) Utah | ||
| Nov 26, 02:31 pm (Denver) (Nov 26, 21:31 GMT) | 2.2 0.2 km | 18 km (11 mi) 11 mi northeast of Milford, Beaver County, Utah, USA | ||
| Tuesday, November 21, 2023 GMT (1 quake) | ||||
| Nov 21, 04:40 pm (Denver) (Nov 21, 23:40 GMT) | 1.2 0.3 km | 17 km (10.6 mi) Beaver County, Utah, USA | ||
Background
The Pleistocene Mineral Mountains-Cove Fort volcanic field contains silicic lava domes in the Mineral Mountains and basaltic and basaltic andesite cinder cones and lava flows of the Cove Fort and adjacent areas. The youngest flows of the Cove Fort field were considered to be of possible early Holocene age (Condie and Barsky 1972), but Potassium-Argon dates of 0.3 million years ago were obtained from the youngest flows (Nash, in Wood and Kienle 1990).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Mineral Mountains-Cove Fort Photos
Very rare and big (2cm!) Olivine crystal at a rock of the Tengger caldera (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
Natrolith crystals (zeolithe) from Ia village/Santorini, 29.03.2012 (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
Opal from Ethiopia (Gashena area) (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
Opal from Gashena (Photo: Tobias Schorr)
See also: Sentinel hub | Landsat 8 | NASA FIRMS
