Cinder cone diagram |
Many cinder cones have a bowl-shaped crater at the summit. Lava flows are usually erupted by cinder cones, either through a breach on one side of the crater or from a vent located on a flank. If the crater is fully breached, the remaining walls form an amphitheatre or horseshoe shape around the vent. Lava rarely issues from the top (except as a fountain) because the loose, uncemented cinders are too weak to support the pressure exerted by molten rock as it rises toward the surface through the central vent.
Sunset Crater of Arizona, a typical cinder cone with little vegetation. |
Holocene cinder cone near Veyo, Utah. |
List Of Cinder Cone Volcano
Africa :
Democratic Republic of Congo
Volcan Rumoka
Murara
Asia :
Russia
Kostakan, Kamchatka Peninsula
Ivao Group, Urup Island, Kuril Islands
Lomonosov Group, Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands
Vernadskii Ridge, Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands
Tolmachev Dol
Turkey
Kula
Karapınar
North America :
Canada
Tseax Cone, British Columbia
Volcano Mountain, Yukon
Atlin Volcanic Field, British Columbia
Buck Hill, British Columbia
Cache Hill, British Columbia
Dragon Cone, British Columbia
Ibex Mountain, Yukon
Iskut-Unuk River Cones, British Columbia
Itcha Range, British Columbia
Kana Cone, British Columbia
Kostal Cone, British Columbia
Nazko Cone, British Columbia
Opal Cone, Garibaldi Park, British Columbia
Alligator Lake volcanic complex, Yukon
Big Timothy Mountain, British Columbia
Camp Hill, British Columbia
Cinder Cliff, British Columbia
Cinder Cone, British Columbia
Cinder Mountain, British Columbia
Cocoa Crater, British Columbia
Coffee Crater, British Columbia
Cracker Creek Cone, British Columbia
Kitasu Hill, British Columbia
Machmel River Cone, British Columbia
Moraine Cone, British Columbia
Nahta Cone, British Columbia
Pointed Stick Cone, British Columbia
Ne Ch'e Ddhawa, Yukon
Ridge Cone, British Columbia
Flourmill Cone, British Columbia
Gabrielse Cone, British Columbia
Satah Mountain, British Columbia
The Saucer, British Columbia
Sidas Cone, British Columbia
Sleet Cone, British Columbia
Storm Cone, British Columbia
Triplex Cone, British Columbia
Twin Cone, British Columbia
Volcanic Creek Cone, British Columbia
Williams Cone, British Columbia
The Volcano, British Columbia
Mexico
El Jorullo
Parícutin, Mexico
Pinacate Peaks, Mexico
United States
Cinder Cone and the Fantastic Lava Beds, California
Mono-Inyo Craters, California
Pisgah Crater, California
Cinnamon Butte, Oregon
Davis Lake volcanic field, Oregon
Newberry Volcano, Oregon (actually a shield volcano,
but it has cinder cones growing on it)
Volcano Mountain, a cinder cone volcano in Yukon Territory, Canada |
Amboy Crater, California
Schonchin Butte, CaliforniaTwin Buttes, California
Capulin Volcano National Monument,
northeastern New Mexico
Mount Gordon, Alaska
Ingakslugwat Hills, Alaska
Hoodoo Butte, Oregon
Lava Butte, Oregon
Mount Talbert, Oregon
Pilot Butte, Oregon
Powell Butte, Oregon
Rocky Butte, Oregon
Mount Tabor, Oregon
Wizard Island, Oregon
Prindle Volcano, Alaska
Amboy Crater, is an extinct North American cinder cone type of volcano |
Sunset Crater, Arizona
Vulcan's Throne, Arizona
Tantalus, Hawaii
Puʻu ʻŌʻō, Hawaii
Oceana :
Australia
Mount Leura, Victoria
Mount Fox, Queensland
Mount Elephant, Victoria
New Zealand
One Tree Hill
Mount Eden, Auckland City
Mount Wellington
Hoodo Butte, is a cinder cone butte in the Cascade Range of northern Oregon |
South America :
Chile
Austral Volcanic Zone:
Pali-Aike Volcanic Field
Southern Volcanic Zone:
Anticura Group
Fui Group
Caburgua-Huelemolle
Puyuhuapi
Pichi-Golgol Group
Carrán-Los Venados, Chile
- Mirador
- Los Venados Group
Puna Pau
Capulin Volcano, located in northeastern New Mexico |
Royal Society Volcano, Antarctica
Cerro Volcánico, Argentina
Mount Mayabobo, Philippines
Bombalai Hill (Sabah, Malaysia)
Geghama mountains, Armenia
Monte Nuovo, Italy
Chaîne des Puys, France (a chain of volcanoes including cinder cones)
Vulcan, Papua New Guinea
Manda-Inakir, Ethiopia-Djibouti border
Barren Island, Andaman Islands
Teneguía, Canary Islands
Cerro Negro, Nicaragua