Nash Crater scoria cone, seen here from Little Nash Crater to the NW, is part of a line of cones that diverges to the NNW from Sand Mountain. Lava flows from Nash Crater were emplaced about 3,850 years ago and traveled to the west where they blocked a stream drainage, forming Fish Lake.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: scoria cone

Sand Mountain Field