Big Southern Butte

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Big Southern Butte
Big Southern Butte

Big Southern Butte ( 43°24′3.60″N, 113°1′22.8″W) is the largest and youngest (300,000 years old) of three rhyolitic domes formed over a million years near the center of the Eastern Snake River Plain in the U.S. state of Idaho.[1] In fact, it is one of the largest volcanic domes on earth.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ Formation of Big Southern Butte, eastern Snake River Plain, Idaho. The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center of the Dept. Geological Sciences, U.C.S.B. Retrieved on 2007-06-17.

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