Monday, January 11, 2021

Understanding origins of Arizona's Sunset Crater eruption of 1,000 years ago

Around 1085 AD, along the southern rim of Northern Arizona's elevated Colorado Plateau, a volcano erupted, forever changing ancient Puebloan fortunes and all nearby life. Among the 600 or so volcanoes that dot the landscape of the San Francisco volcanic fields, this one blew. It was the very first (and last) eruption for what came to be known as Sunset Crater, aptly named for its multi-hued, 1,000-foot-tall cinder cone.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-arizona-sunset-crater-eruption-years.html