Jack Dykinga / Cerro Colorado volcano crater at sunset with Sierra de los Tanques in background, Biosphere Reserve of Pinacate and Gran Desierto Altar, Sonora, Mexico

David Fleetham / View across crater of dormant Haleakala / East Maui Volcano. Haleakala National Park, Maui, Hawaii. March 2016.

David Fleetham / View from Kalahaku Overlook, from Haleakala Crater and Ka Lu'u o ka O'o Cone, Haleakala National Park, Maui's dormant volcano, Hawaii. Sliding sands trail can be seen behind the cone.

Doug Perrine / Lava erupting from fissure 8 of the Kilauea Volcano, boiling out of cinder cone. East rift zone in Leilani Estates, near Pahoa, Puna District, Hawaii. June 2018.

Nick Upton / Weathered cinder cone volcano, with the crater colonised by endemic vegetation including Teide white broom (Spartocytisus supranubius), with outer flanks of loose pumice deposits yet to be vegetated,...

Tim Fitzharris / Capulin Volcano cinder code, extinct, Capulin Volcano National Monument, New Mexico

Kirkendall-Spring / Syringa (Philadelphus lewisii) blooming along the North Crater Flow Trail with cinder cone fragments in the background, Craters Of The Moon National Monument and Preserve, Idaho, USA, June.

Kevin Schafer / Painted Dunes below Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Kevin Schafer / Painted Dunes below Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Kevin Schafer / Cinder Cone, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California

Bryan and Cherry Alexander / Parasitic Cone, a cinder cone on the side of the volcano on Isla Bartolome. Santiago, Galapagos, January 2005.

Pete Oxford / Palo santo trees (Bursera galapageia) and cinder cone in the arid zone of Tagus Cove, Isabela Island, Galapagos