WEBSITE FUNDAMENTALS EXPLAINED

The magma that fuels the volcanoes from the park is derived from subduction off the Coastline of Northern California. Cinder Cone as well as the Amazing Lava Beds, located about ten mi (16 km) northeast of Lassen Peak, is usually a cinder cone volcano and linked lava stream area that past erupted about 1650. It made a series of basaltic andesite