Big Southern Butte
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| Big Southern Butte | |
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| File:Big southern butte.Par.84344.Image.-1.-1.1.jpg Big Southern Butte | |
| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 7,550 ft (2,300 m)[1] |
| Prominence | 2,380 ft (730 m)[2] |
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| Geography | |
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| Location | Butte County, Idaho, United States |
| Topo map | USGS Big Southern Butte |
| Geology | |
| Rock age | 300,000 years[4] |
| Mountain type | Lava dome |
| Designated | 1976 |
Big Southern Butte is the largest and youngest (300,000 years old) of three rhyolitic domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern Snake River Plain in the U.S. state of Idaho.[5] It is one of the largest volcanic domes on Earth.[4] It rises approximately 2500 vertical feet (762 m) above the lava plain in southern Butte County, east of Craters of the Moon National Monument.
Big Southern Butte consists of two coalesced lava domes with a base diameter of 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) and a combined volume of approximately 8 cubic kilometres (1.9 cu mi).[6]
See also
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References
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- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Big Southern Butte
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External links
[edit | edit source]- History of the Big Southern Butte area
- Tourofidaho.com: Big Southern Butte − on the Tour of Idaho Archived 2021-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
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Categories:
- Pleistocene lava domes
- Volcanoes of Idaho
- Volcanoes of the Rocky Mountains
- Landforms of Butte County, Idaho
- National Natural Landmarks in Idaho
- Protected areas of Butte County, Idaho
- Bureau of Land Management areas in Idaho
- Lava domes of the United States
- Quaternary Idaho
- Butte County, Idaho, geography stubs
- Volcanology stubs