The name Jordan Craters lava field is applied to the Holocene basalt lava flows and their eruptive vents that lie 30 km (19 mi) northwest of the town of Jordan Valley, Oregon. The largest vent is at Coffeepot Crater, a breached crater adjacent to a remnant of its scoria cone.

Highlights: The 27-square-mile ovaline lava flow of Jordan Craters is one of the most recent volcanic flows in Oregon — so much so that locals claim that you can still see bootprints in places. The origin of the flow is Coffeepot Crater, a deep cavity at the far northeast of the flow.

Jordan Craters is approximately 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Boise, Idaho [3] and 18 miles (30 km) northwest of Jordan Valley, Oregon. [4] The craters are free and open to the public all year.

2023年3月9日 · Jordan Craters, a volcanic field located off Highway 95 in the Owyhee Desert of southern Oregon, is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM); the area has a similar feel to the better-known Craters of the Moon National Monument in …

2022年7月28日 · Jordan Craters is an otherworldly place, beautiful and foreboding, an outdoor museum of recent basalt volcanism amid sagebrush steppe rangeland. Located about eighteen miles northwest of the town of Jordan Valley , Jordan Craters is near the geographic boundary between the southeastern High Lava Plains and the western Owyhee Uplands portions of ...

The 27-square-mile ovaline lava flow of Jordan Craters is one of the most recent volcanic flows in Oregon. The origin of the flow is Coffeepot Crater, a deep cavity at the far northeastern part of the flow.

2010年11月9日 · Jordan Craters is a monogenetic volcanic field in southeast Oregon. Three main vents are aligned parallel to structures caused by Basin and Range faulting. Coffeepot Crater, shown above, was one of the main vents. Flows from this vent covered 29 square miles (75 square kilometers).

Jordan Craters lie on the Owyhee-Oregon plateau at the SE end of a series of widely scattered young volcanic fields extending SE from Bend, Oregon. Coffeepot Crater at the NW end of the field was the source, about 3,200 years ago or later, of one of Oregon's youngest lava flows.

Jordan Craters Volcanic Field is monitored by the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory.

Welcome to JORDAN CRATERS! Jordan Craters is a volcanic field, covering 27 square miles with olivine basalt. This otherworldly scene is the result of lava flow that occurred in two main phases, both less than 30,000 years ago.