Name: Iddings Butte

 

County: Sweetwater

 

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Part of the Leucite Hills.

Source: Kemp and Knight

 

Iddings Butte is a volcanic neck which forms an elliptical mass 200 to 300 feet long and 75 feet long. ... From the neck, a dike bears away to the southeast for about 200 feet, level with the hill. We name these two exposures after Professor Joseph Paxton Iddings, of Chicago University, in recognition of his work in Yellowstone Park and Crandall basin, Wyoming.

Source: Kemp and Knight 

 

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