Sunset Crater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona. The crater is within the Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument.
Sunset Crater is the youngest in a string of volcanoes (the San Francisco volcanic field) that is related to the nearby San Francisco Peaks.[6]
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SunsetCrater is a cinder cone located north of Flagstaff in the U.S. state of Arizona. The crater is within the SunsetCrater Volcano National Monument...
years old to less than 1,000 years (Miocene to Holocene), of which SunsetCrater is the youngest. The highest peak in the field is Humphreys Peak, at...
2005). "Sunset Over Gusev Crater". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Retrieved September 6, 2011. Wikiquote has quotations related to Sunset. Look up...
lava flow from the eruption flowed near the base of SunsetCrater. "Lenox Crater Trail – SunsetCrater Volcano National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)"...
Bonito Lava Flow - (Map). The basalt lava flow extruded from the base of SunsetCrater around 1180. The flow surface consists of pahoehoe. Kana-a Lava Flow...
Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interior volcanic crater. It is located approximately 50...
Black Bottom Crater is a volcanic crater located in Arizona, east-northeast of SunsetCrater, and west-southwest of Roden Crater. To the northwest is...
and a nearly circular ground plan. Most cinder cones have a bowl-shaped crater at the summit. Cinder cones range in size from tens to hundreds of meters...
name SunsetCrater beardtongue. It is endemic to Arizona, where it is known only from a system of volcanic cinder cones, including SunsetCrater, in Coconino...
from a young age; at 16, he had an article about a trip he took to SunsetCrater published in The New York Times. Crichton later recalled, "Roslyn was...
explosion craters and tuff rings. Cinder cones may form as flank vents on larger volcanoes, or occur on their own. Parícutin in Mexico and SunsetCrater in Arizona...
administered by the National Park Service in close conjunction with the nearby SunsetCrater Volcano National Monument. Wupatki was established as a national monument...
early as 700 AD. The area was briefly abandoned due to the eruption of SunsetCrater Volcano, about 60 miles (97 km) to the north, in the mid-11th century...
National Monument". National Park Service. Retrieved March 2, 2019. "SunsetCrater Volcano National Monument". National Park Service. Retrieved January...
Double Crater is an extinct Pleistocene volcano within the San Francisco volcanic field, north of Flagstaff, Arizona. It is to the southeast of Sunset Crater...
and SunsetCrater Volcano National Monument the latter of which preserves the youngest cinder cone in the San Francisco Volcanic Field, SunsetCrater. The...
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cinder cone which was born in a cornfield on February 20, 1943, and SunsetCrater in Northern Arizona in the US Southwest are classic examples of cinder...
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