Red Hill Cinder Cone - It’s a Volcano! - California

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Written By Elliot Koeppel

If you’ve driven along the 395, you’ve most likely passed this volcano and didn’t realize the immense danger you were in. Just kidding, it hasn’t erupted for at least 10,000 years and possibly not for over 100,000 years.

Red Hill is a 630-foot-tall cinder cone volcano, in the Coso Volcanic field. It’s quite the sight to see as you speed past at 90 mph. It’s composed of cinder cones, which are composed of, well, cinders (small fragments of lava around an inch or so across). They are explosively ejected during eruptions.

Are the nearby Fossil Falls a creation of this particular cinder cone? I don’t know.

Currently, Red Hill is being mined for, you guessed it, cinder. Which is apparently used to treat slippery roads.

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