Scene along the Lava's Edge Trail beneath and near Sunset Crater, now part of Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument, just northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona

The date of the eruptions that formed the 340-meter-high cinder cone of the volcano's crater itself, initially derived from tree-ring anlysis and later by geologic evidence, places the tremendous eruption between 1050 and 1085. The explosion was the source of the Bonito and Kana-a lava flows that extended up to 10 square miles from the center of the volcano, the remnants of which are visible as the notched low mountain to the left in the distance.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.