Black Butte Crater Lava Field

Coordinates: 43°11′01″N 114°20′53″W / 43.18361°N 114.34806°W / 43.18361; -114.34806
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Shoshone Lava Field

The Black Butte Crater Lava Field, formerly known as Shoshone Lava Field is a lava plain in the U.S. state of Idaho, located in Lincoln County north of the city of Shoshone.

It is the westernmost of the young lava fields occupying the Snake River Plain. The latest volcanic activity occurred during the Holocene period.[1]

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  1. ^ "Shoshone Lava Field". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2020-03-21.

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43°11′01″N 114°20′53″W / 43.18361°N 114.34806°W / 43.18361; -114.34806