CRATERS OF THE MOON / VOLCANIC FIELD

IDAHO / 2018

MONUMENT / GEOLOGY

Craters of the Moon National Monument occupies a vast volcanic landscape on Idaho's Snake River Plain. Its lava flows, cinder cones, spatter cones, fissures, and sagebrush plains form one of the best-preserved recent volcanic terrains in the continental United States.

LAVA FIELD

The lava field covers about 620 square miles and is the largest predominantly Holocene lava field in the contiguous United States.

A field study of Idaho’s vast volcanic landscape.