Great Rift
Shows a close-up view of the Great Rift and possible mechanisms by which features visible today on the surface were created.
Tree Molds
Illustration of the process by which the imprint of charred trunks remains after contact with lava.
Rafted Blocks
Shows the transport of large chunks of a cinder cone by lava flows.
Did You Know?
Vast quantities of water stored by the lava rock aquifer below the Eastern Snake River Plain provides for critical human needs throughout southern Idaho...including those famous potatoes!