Photo gallery of Inyo Craters, California

Inyo Craters, Long Valley Caldera, California

Photograph by C.D. Miller in 1984

Aerial view of Inyo Craters is toward the south-southeast; South Inyo Crater is on the right. The summit crater atop Deer Mountain is visible in lower left.


South Inyo Crater, Long Valley Caldera, California

Photograph by S.R. Brantley on
July 29, 1998

View of the west wall of South Inyo Crater. The rocky cliff visible in the crater wall is the top of a series of basaltic lava flows that were erupted between 200,000 and 100,000 years ago onto the west floor of Long Valley caldera.


South Inyo Crater and Mammoth Mountain, Long Valley Caldera, California

Photograph by S.R. Brantley in
August 1992

This view of Inyo Craters and Mammoth Mountain from atop Deer Mountain is toward the south. The North Inyo Crater is obscured by trees in foreground.


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