Twin Buttes

The Twin Buttes are two volcanic cinder cones located in the Cascade Range in Shasta County, California. They are part of the Bidwell Spring chain and lie within a region that was active in the Quaternary. Formed during the Pleistocene between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, the volcanoes erupted lava flows that coursed toward the Burney Mountain lava dome. These lava flows cover an area of and are made of basalt and dacite. The volcanoes also erupted cinder and volcanic ash that reached eastward.