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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06720

Red Cones, here mantled in winter white in a telephoto view looking SW from Mammoth Mountain, are two young basaltic cinder cones in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Devils Postpile National Monuement.  The youthful-looking cones are Holocene in age. Photo by Paul Kimberly, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).

Red Cones, here mantled in winter white in a telephoto view looking SW from Mammoth Mountain, are two young basaltic cinder cones in the eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains near Devils Postpile National Monuement. The youthful-looking cones are Holocene in age.

Photo by Paul Kimberly, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Mammoth Mountain