The Cinders is a lava field including a

volcanic A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...

hill named Ice Springs craters in the west-central portion of

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, United States. It is also known as the Ice Springs Volcanic Field.

Geology

The Cinders are part of the

Black Rock Desert volcanic field The Black Rock Desert volcanic field in Millard County, Utah, is a cluster of several volcanic features of the Great Basin including Pahvant Butte, The Cinders, and Tabernacle Hill. The field's Ice Springs event was an explosive eruption follo ...

. The lava of The Cinders is

basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...

of late

Holocene The Holocene ( ) is the current geological epoch. It began approximately 11,650 cal years Before Present (), after the Last Glacial Period, which concluded with the Holocene glacial retreat. The Holocene and the preceding Pleistocene togethe ...

age. The basalt erupted from the vent at the Ice Springs craters less than 700 years ago (as of 2020).
Quaternary geology of the Black Rock Desert, Millard County, Utah
'. Oviatt, C. G., 1991. Utah Geological Survey, Special Study 73 (23 p., pl. 1). Map Scale: 1:100,000. It is the youngest basalt flow in Utah. To the south is a somewhat older lava flow surrounding

Tabernacle Hill Tabernacle Hill is a butte formed by a inactive volcano, dormant volcano in the west-central portion of Utah, United States. Description The butte is located in the Sevier Desert in the Pahvant Valley southwest of Fillmore, Utah, Fillmore. The ...

. The basalt of the Cinders and Tabernacle hill was first mapped by geologists

Grove Karl Gilbert Grove Karl Gilbert (May 6, 1843 – May 1, 1918), known by the abbreviated name G. K. Gilbert in academic literature, was an American geologist. Biography Gilbert was born in Rochester, New York and graduated from the University of Rochester. D ...

and

Israel Russell Israel Cook Russell, LL.D. (December 10, 1852 – May 1, 1906) was an American geologist and geographer who explored Alaska in the late 19th century. Early life and education Russell was born at Garrattsville, New York, on December 10, 1852. He r ...

in 1890 (see map below). File:Plate 35 Map of a Volcanic District near Fillmore, Utah.jpg, Gilbert and Russell's 1890 Map of the Volcanic District File:Ice Springs basalt Utah.jpg, Ice Springs basalt, near the Ice Caves File:Ice Springs basalt is1.jpg, Sample of the basalt File:Блэк Рок Десерт2.jpg, The Cinders, looking southwest towards the central cone File:The Cinders lava flow Utah 2020.jpg, The Cinders in 2020

References

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