Cinder Cone - Lassen Volcanic National Park - California - Volcano Watching on Waymarking.com

Cinder Cone is a 750 foot high cinder cone with associated lava flows and ash deposits. Flows from the cone dammed creeks forming Snag Lake and Butte Lake. At the summit of the cone there is a crater with a double rim, probably the result of declining eruptive activity near the end of the eruption.

The age of Cinder Cone has been uncertain since the 1870s when many peple thought it was only a few decades old. Later work suggested the cone and flows were thought to have formed about A.D. 1700 or during a 300 year long series of eruptions which ended in 1851. Recent studies by the U.S Geologic Survey (2000) have firmly established that the cone was formed in about 1650 which agrees well with the tree ring date of 1666 proposed by R.H. Finch in 1937.

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From the summit there is a great 360° view which includes many other volcanic features such as shield volcanoes (Prospect Peak) and volcanic domes (Lassen Peak and Chaos Crags).

Volcano Type: Cinder Cone Volcano Location: Continental (subduction zone) Year of most recent activity: 1650 Caldera Visible?: no Cone Visible?: yes Crater Visible?: yes Geyser/Hot Spring Visible?: no Lava Dome Visible?: yes Lava Flow (Moving) Visible?: no Lava Flow (Not Moving) Visible?: yes Vent or Fumarole Visible?: yes

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Date Logged Log User Rating   09/15/2013 Volcanoguy visited it