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Bailey R A, Miller C D, Sieh K, 1989. Excursion 13B: Long Valley caldera and Mono-Inyo Craters volcanic chain. {New Mexico Bur Mines Min Resour Mem}, 47: 227-254

Bursik M, Sieh K, 1989. Range front faulting and volcanism in the Mono Basin, eastern California. {J Geophys Res}, 94: 15, 585-15,609

California Div. Mines and Geology, 1958-69. Geologic atlas of California, 1:250,0000 scale.. {Calif Div Mines Geol}

Hildreth W, 2004. Volcanological perspectives on Long Valley, Mammoth Mountain, and Mono Craters: several contiguous but discrete systems. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 136: 169-198

Kilbourne R T, Chesterman C W, Wood S H, 1980. Recent volcanism in the Mono Basin-Long Valley Region of Mono County, California. {Calif Div Mines Geol Spec Rpt}, 150: 7-22

Sarna-Wojcicki A M, Champion D E, Davis J O, 1983. Holocene volcanism in the conterminous United States and the role of silicic volcanic ash layers in correlation of latest Pleistocene and Holocene deposits. {In}: Wright H E (ed) {Late-Quaternary Environments of the United States}, Minneapolis: Univ Minnesota Press, 2: 52-77

The Mono Lake volcanic field east of Yosemite National Park and north of the Mono Craters consists of vents within Mono Lake and on its north shore. The most topographically prominent feature, Black Point, is an initially sublacustral basaltic cone that rises above the NW shore and was formed about 13,300 years ago when Mono Lake was higher. Holocene rhyodacitic lava domes and flows form Negit and parts of Paoha islands off the northern shore and center of the lake, respectively. The most recent eruptive activity in the Long Valley to Mono Lake region took place 100-230 years ago, when lake-bottom sediments forming much of Paoha Island were uplifted by intrusion of a rhyolitic cryptodome (Stine, in Bailey et al. 1989). Spectacular tufa towers line the shores of Mono Lake.