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Volcanic Field Fissure Eruption Shield Volcano

These are just a fewof NewMexico’s volcanoes. Albuquerque volcanoes San Felipe volcano, Santa Ana volcanic field Fissure eruption Shield volcano Capulin Raton-Clayton TaosPlateau Volcano Ship Rock volcanicfield Cerro Cuate, Rio Puerco Cerro la Jara, Valles Caldera volcanicfield Capulin Volcano, Raton-Clayton volcanic field Cabezon Peak, Rio Puerco Volcanic neck Volcanic dome Cinder cone Volcanic neck RioGranderift Ocaté volcanicfield Pedernal Peak VallesCaldera, JemezMountains CerrosdelRio volcanicfield Cerro Cuate MountTaylor Cabezon volcanicfield SantaAna ElTintero East GrantsRidge volcanicfield Cienega volcanicfield Zuñi-Bandera Albuquerquevolcanoes volcanicfield CatHillsvolcanicfield ElMalpais Cuberovolcano Isletavolcano Volcanic rocks Lucero LosLunasvolcano younger than 5 million volcanic years old field Albuquerque volcanoes McCartys lava flow, El Malpais ZuñiSaltLakecrater Tomé, BlackButte, Cerros del Rio volcanic field Valles Caldera, Jemez Mountains LosPiños - Fissure eruption Ropy lava volcanoes Columnar basalt Super volcano RedHill RioGranderift volcanicfield Carrizozo Datil-Mogollon lavaflow volcanicfield (Valleyof Fires) JornadadelMuerto volcanicfield SierraBlanca ElephantButte volcano volcanicfield RioGranderift RioGranderift CityofRocks Bandera volcano, Zuñi-Bandera volcanic field Rio Grande Gorge, Taos Plateau Pedernal Peak South cone, Cat Hills Potrillo Cinder cone Dissected lava flows Palomas Eroded oldlava flows Cinder cone volcanicfield volcanicfield Geronimo-Animas volcanicfield Valles Caldera rim Mount Taylor Cubero volcano El Tintero volcano Aden Crater, Potrillo volcanic field Ship Rock Ash-flow tuffs Composite volcano Dissected cinder cone Cinder cone Lava field Volcanic neck Zuñi Salt Lake crater McCartys lava flow, El Malpais Raton-Clayton volcanoes East Grants Ridge Ute Mountain, Taos Plateau Lagunas de Alejandro, Mount Taylor volcanic field Maar Cinder cone Volcanic field Cinder cone cross section Lava dome Maar New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science Poster design, graphics, and photographs by L.S. Crumpler and JayneAubele. For moreinformationabout the types of volcanoes shown here see Poster No. 3 or go to “Volcanoes of New Mexico” at Imagenés de la historia natural, No. 2 www.nmnaturalhistory.org/sci_volcanoes.html.

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