from space showing more than 60 lava flows emanating from the Craters of the Moon area on the eastern Snake River Plain in southeastern Idaho (click to enlarge). Highly fluid basalts extruded in this region have been dated from 15,000 to 2,100 years before present and cover an area of ~1,600 sq km (620 sq mi) with a total volume of 30 cubic km (7.2 cubic mi).That's a lotta lava.
Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Robert Simmon, based on Landsat 7 data from the USGS Global Visualization Viewer.
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