The Boring Lava Field is a series of volcanic features in and around Portland, and some of the most notable are also some of the easiest to access. Jamie Hale/The Oregonian Mount Tabor What does a ...

During the Pleistocene era, much of Oregon was a covered with pulsing rivers of lava which formed what is known today as the Boring Lava Field (don’t know what’s “boring” about that).

Known as the East Buttes, the old cinder cones are part of the much larger Boring Lava Field, which includes Mount Tabor, Powell Butte and Rocky Butte in Portland, extending south past Oregon City ...

Actually, that’s exactly what Mount Tabor is — a little volcanic cinder cone from the surrounding Boring Lava Field that’s been extinct for about 300,000 years. This little feature makes ...

Kelly Butte Natural Area started as a cinder cone volcano formed from the Boring Lava Field. The land was first claimed by its namesake and Oregon pioneer Clinton Kelly in 1848. It was acquired by ...

A field that has been burning with a lava-like substance "for three years" has been described as a "serious risk to life" by a dad. The worried parent captured the smouldering soil on camera this ...

Bigger than the island of Manhattan, the lava flow from the Holuhraun lava field in Iceland is now the largest the country has seen in more than 200 years, according to NASA’s Earth Observatory.