The Cinders

The Cinders
The Cinders
	1981 air photo. Image is about 10.5 km wide.
Highest point
Elevation	4,940 ft (1,510 m)
Geography
Country	United States
State	Utah
Region	Black Rock Desert volcanic field
District	Millard County
Range coordinates	38°54′36″N 112°31′56″W / 38.91000°N 112.53222°WCoordinates: 38°54′36″N 112°31′56″W / 38.91000°N 112.53222°W
Topo map	USGS Tabernacle Hill, UT

The Cinders is a lava field including a volcanic hill named Ice Springs craters in the west-central portion of Utah, United States.^[1] It is also known as the Ice Springs Volcanic Field.

Geology[]

The Cinders are part of the Black Rock Desert volcanic field. The lava of The Cinders is basalt of late Holocene age. The basalt erupted from the vent at the Ice Springs craters less than 700 years ago (as of 2020).^[2] It is the youngest basalt flow in Utah.

To the south is a somewhat older lava flow surrounding Tabernacle Hill.

The basalt of the Cinders and Tabernacle hill was first mapped by geologists Grove Karl Gilbert and Israel Russell in 1890 (see map below).

Gilbert and Russell's 1890 Map of the Volcanic District
Ice Springs basalt, near the Ice Caves
Sample of the basalt
The Cinders, looking southwest towards the central cone
The Cinders in 2020

References[]

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: The Cinders
^ Quaternary geology of the Black Rock Desert, Millard County, Utah. Oviatt, C. G., 1991. Utah Geological Survey, Special Study 73 (23 p., pl. 1). Map Scale: 1:100,000.

[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: The Cinders

[2] Quaternary geology of the Black Rock Desert, Millard County, Utah. Oviatt, C. G., 1991. Utah Geological Survey, Special Study 73 (23 p., pl. 1). Map Scale: 1:100,000.

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