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Publisher's Note: Long before the first humans set foot on North America, volcanic eruptions repeatedly rocked the areas around El Malpais, cracking the ground open and spraying lava upwards. In fact, the cycle of eruptions had repeated nearly one hundred times before Native Americans first saw this land. Great outpourings of lava torched the land with intense heat and paved the countryside with hard, black rock. In order to preserve and protect these unique and fragile volcanic land forms, the Federal Government created El Malpais National Park and the surrounding El Malpais Conservation area in west central New Mexico. The authors describe the activity of volcanic eruptions of the major craters, lava tubes, cinder cones, and lava flows of the region.