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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03380

Sunset Crater at the upper right is seen in this aerial view along a 10-km-long eruptive fissure extending to its SE.  An eruption from Gyp Crater, immediately behind the left rim of the snow-dappled Pleistocene Double Crater in the foreground, occurred along the SE-trending fissure.  Snow-capped San Francisco Mountain appears in the background at the upper left. Photo by Ed Wolfe, 1973 (U.S. Geological Survey).

Sunset Crater at the upper right is seen in this aerial view along a 10-km-long eruptive fissure extending to its SE. An eruption from Gyp Crater, immediately behind the left rim of the snow-dappled Pleistocene Double Crater in the foreground, occurred along the SE-trending fissure. Snow-capped San Francisco Mountain appears in the background at the upper left.

Photo by Ed Wolfe, 1973 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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San Francisco Volcanic Field