The Cinders is a lava field including a volcanic hill named Ice Springs craters in the west-central portion of Utah, United States. 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).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. 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).
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