Volcanodle
Puzzle #74 was Crater Basalt Volcanic Field.
The Crater Basalt volcanic field in the northern Patagonia region of Argentina covers an area of about 700 km2. The field lies about 400 km E of the Peru-Chile trench along the broad regional Gastre fault system. Nine cinder cones and spatter cones produced blocky lava flows of alkali basaltic, basanitic, and trachybasaltic composition.
Read about it at the Global Volcanism Program →
Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution
What the record says
Puzzle 74 ran on 21 Sep 2026 and the answer was Crater Basalt Volcanic Field, played with 6 guesses against 8 columns. On the record: Country - Argentina; Region - South America Volcanic Regions; Type - volcanic-field; Tectonic setting - intraplate; Elevation - 500-1500; Rock type - basalt; Historically observed - not-observed. 1 of the 8 columns is blank in the source (Last eruption), so nobody could score it either way.
Volcanodle builds its record from Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution (Venzke, E. (ed.), Volcanoes of the World, volcano.si.edu). The description above comes from the same place the game credits on every reveal: A verbatim excerpt of the volcano's GVP Geological Summary. The puzzle itself is still playable in the archive, and every answer that has been and gone is listed on the past-answers page.
How it scored
- Country
- Argentina
- Region
- South America Volcanic Regions
- Type
- volcanic-field
- Tectonic setting
- intraplate
- Elevation
- 500-1500
- Last eruption
- Not recorded
- Rock type
- basalt
- Historically observed
- not-observed