No latest activity reported for Soda Lakes.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Garside L F, Shevenell L A, Snow J H, Hess R H, 2002. Status of Nevada geothermal resource development -- Spring 2002. {Trans Geotherm Res Council}, 26: 527-532

Garside L J, Schilling J H, 1979. Thermal waters of Nevada. {Nev Bur Mines Geol Bull}, 91: 1-167

Morrison R B, 1964. Late Lahontan: geology of southern Carson desert, Nevada. {U S Geol Surv Prof Pap}, 401

Price J G, LaPointe D D, 1998. Ancient lakes and volcanoes near Fallon. {Nev Bur Mines Geol Educ Ser} E-28: 1-4; also online at http://www.nbmg.unr.edu/dox/e28/guide.htm

Two lake-filled maars, Soda Lake and Little Soda Lake, lie NW of the town of Fallon. The basaltic maars were formed subaerially, post-dating the Pleistocene glacial Lake Lahontan, and were estimated to be less than 10,000 years old and perhaps even less than 1500 years old (Garside and Schilling, 1979; Price and LaPointe, 1998). The larger maar, Soda Lake, is about 1.3 x 2 km wide and is elongated in a NE-SW direction. The 300-m-wide Little Soda Lake lies south of Soda Lake. The late-Pleistocene Upsal Hogback cones lie to the NNE of Soda Lakes. The maars are the site of a geothermal prospect that may have discharged hot springs through the end of the 19th century.