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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06764

Amboy Crater is a composite cinder cone that contains at least four nested craters.  The two outermost craters are breached to the west.  A broad lava field that extends from the cone is visible beyond the breach.  Light-colored windblown sand deposited by prevailing winds from the west fill in low spots on the surface of the lava flow. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).

Amboy Crater is a composite cinder cone that contains at least four nested craters. The two outermost craters are breached to the west. A broad lava field that extends from the cone is visible beyond the breach. Light-colored windblown sand deposited by prevailing winds from the west fill in low spots on the surface of the lava flow.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1997 (Smithsonian Institution).

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