Valles Caldera
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The Valles Caldera is a 13.7-mile-wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps, and volcanic domes dot the caldera landscape.
Cerro la Jara, an approximately 246-foot (75 m) high forested rhyolite lava dome within the caldera
Valles Caldera
Elk Calf in the Valle Grande, 2012
Cerro la Jara (right) in Valle Grande in winter
Caldera
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A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption. The ejection of large volumes of magma in a short time can upset the integrit
Valles Caldera
…The Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile-wide (22.0 km) volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps, and volcanic domes dot the caldera landscape. The…
Valle Caldera, New Mexico
Oblique aerial photo of Nemrut Caldera, Van Lake, Eastern Turkey
Sollipulli Caldera, located in central Chile near the border with Argentina, filled with ice. The volcano is in the southern Andes Mountains within Chile's Parque Nacional Villarica.
Caldera of Mount Tambora