Geology

Soda Lake

Churchill County, NV

Approximate location — plotted from published sources, not a site visit, and not a guarantee of access.

Young basalt maar (and sister Little Soda Lake) on the Carson Sink floor NW of Fallon — one of Nevada's clearest Holocene phreatomagmatic craters. USGS classifies the pair as maars younger than ~6,000 years, erupted through Lake Lahontan sediments; alkaline meromictic lake chemistry is well studied.

Facts

RegionChurchill County, NV
Coordinates (approx.)39.5250, -118.8781
TypeBasalt maars (Soda + Little Soda)
AgeHolocene (<~6 ka)
AccessPublic roads NW of Fallon
NoteGeothermal plant on NE flank

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