Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03597

Pu’u o Maui is the largest of a group of scoria cones erupted along a rift zone that passes across Haleakalā crater, with the western crater rim to the upper left. The large summit crater formed through erosion and collapse events. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1987 (Smithsonian Institution).

Pu’u o Maui is the largest of a group of scoria cones erupted along a rift zone that passes across Haleakalā crater, with the western crater rim to the upper left. The large summit crater formed through erosion and collapse events.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1987 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Galleries: Scoria Cones

Keywords: scoria cone | rift zone

Haleakala