It is named after the nearby town of Midnight, Mississippi.
During the time it was active, Midnight Volcano may have been a volcanic island in the Mississippi Embayment.
[1] The volcanic activity in the area is associated with the Monroe Uplift,[2][3] and igneous rocks in the region have been dated from 84 to 73 Ma.
[7] These most recent deposits roughly coincide with the activity of Jackson Volcano, another buried volcano southeast of Midnight[8] Volcanic debris from this volcanism was also found in the "Coffee sands", a Cretaceous sand layer to the north.
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