Mountain Home-Kuna Lava Field volcano
Pyroclastic cone(s) 1040 m / 3412 ft
Idaho, United States, 43.2°N / -115.98°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Idaho, United States, 43.2°N / -115.98°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Mountain Home-Kuna Lava Field volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
This extensive field of Quaternary basalt extends about 95 km between Mountain Home and the Kuna-Melba area southeast of the Boise River Valley (Wood, 1997). Basaltic outcrops have been dated around 2 Ma at Wild Horse Butte and Jackass Butte.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Mountain Home-Kuna Lava Field Photos
By the time we have arrived on the NW side of the summit craters, the sun has risen and Etna drops her majestic morningshadow to the West over Sicily. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffe...
The lava flow has destroyed the cable car (Etna eruption July 2011). (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
Strombolian activity at Etna's SE crater in October 2006. The lights of Catania in the background. (Photo: Tom Pfeiffer)
Eruption from the new crater and silhouette of an old cable car. (c)
See also: Sentinel hub | Landsat 8
