Black Volcano

Black Volcano is an inactive volcano near Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the Albuquerque volcanic field and along the western edge of Petroglyph National Monument. Formed about 156,000 years ago, it is part of a rare fissure-eruption chain with JA Volcano and Vulcan Volcano, where lava rose through a single crack rather than from isolated cones alone. Composed of dark olivine tholeiitic basalt, it has lava flows radiating from a summit with a small pyroclastic cone, a large filled crater, and smaller late-forming craters. Although cinder mining had removed much of its pyroclastic cone by 1978, it remains an important part of the area's volcanic landscape.

Albuquerque, New Mexico · United States