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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Black Rock Desert
The Black Rock Desert volcanic field consists of a cluster of closely spaced small volcanic fields of Pleistocene-to-Holocene age in the Black Rock and Sevier deserts. This view shows Utah's youngest known lava flow, the 660-year-old Ice Springs flow, which originated from a series of nested cinder and spatter cones. The rim of Crescent Crater is at the right, with the symmetrical Pocket Crater at the left and Pavant Butte in the distance. This tuff cone erupted through the waters of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville about 16,000 years ago. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).
Volcano Number:
327050
Volcano Name:
Black Rock Desert
Country:
United States
Volcano Type:
Volcanic field
Last Eruption:
1290 CE
Elevation:
1800m
Tectonic Setting:
Rift zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
3292
Pop. within 10km:
3292
Pop. within 30km:
3679
Pop. within 100km:
54291
Latitude:
38.97
Longitude:
-112.5
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The Black Rock Desert volcanic field consists of a group of closely spaced small Pleistocene-to-Holocene volcanic fields in the Black Rock and Sevier deserts of south-central Utah, at the eastern margin of the Great Basin. The Black Rock Desert field contains both Utah's youngest known rhyolite dome (400,000 years old) and its youngest eruptive vent, which produced the roughly 660-year-old Ice Springs lava flows. The broader volcanic field includes the smaller Deseret, Pavant, Kanosh, Tabernacle, Ice Spring, and northern Black Rock Desert fields. The Pavant Butte and Tabernacle Hill tuff cones were erupted about 16,000 and 14,000 years ago through the waters of glacial Lake Bonneville. Lava flows from the Ice Springs crater complex traveled about 4 km west and north, overlapping late-Pleistocene flows from Pavant Butte.
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