English: Cinder cone in the Pleistocene of Idaho, USA.

Crescent Butte is a dormant, vegetation-covered cinder cone volcano in Idaho's Craters of the Moon Lava Field. Cinder cones are relatively small, steep-sided cones of loose igneous debris. They have few eruptions and a relatively large summit crater. Cinder cones are principally composed of scoria and vesicular basalt. This one was active in the late Pleistocene - it erupted basaltic lava having pahoehoe flow tops. The volcano itself is composed of a mix of lava flows, volcanic ash, lapilli, spatter, and ~fresh to oxidized cinders.

Locality: Crescent Butte (view from the summit of Inferno Cone), east of Big Cinder Butte, Craters of the Moon National Monument, Snake River Plain, southern Idaho, USA (43˚ 24' 38.86" North latitude, 113˚ 30' 17.43" West longitude)

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Site-specific info. from:

Kuntz et al. (2007) - Geologic map of the Craters of the Moon 30' x 60' quadrangle, Idaho. United States Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 2969. 1 map. 64 pp. pamphlet.