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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06641

A series of lava flows from a vent on the SE flank of Cinder Cone traveled about 3.5 km to the north and south.  Snag Lake, seen here to the south from the summit of Cinder Cone, was formed with the lava flow dammed up drainages.  The colorful area at the lower left, known as the Painted Dunes, is an ash deposit oxidized by the heat of a still-hot underlying lava flow.  The dark-colored main flow beyond the Painted Dunes was emplaced later during the same eruption, and is ash free. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1998 (Smithsonian Institution).

A series of lava flows from a vent on the SE flank of Cinder Cone traveled about 3.5 km to the north and south. Snag Lake, seen here to the south from the summit of Cinder Cone, was formed with the lava flow dammed up drainages. The colorful area at the lower left, known as the Painted Dunes, is an ash deposit oxidized by the heat of a still-hot underlying lava flow. The dark-colored main flow beyond the Painted Dunes was emplaced later during the same eruption, and is ash free.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1998 (Smithsonian Institution).

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