Valles-Caldera

Valles Caldera to a recording of the Landsat satellites NASA

The Valles Caldera is located in Sandoval County, the State of New Mexico to the United States of North America and is a diameter up to 22 km wide caldera near Los Alamos.

The Valles caldera formed during two major eruptions about 1.7 million years ago and 1.2 that had ³ an ejection amount of about 600 km, which is why it is considered one of the super volcanoes. The deposits from these two eruptions are called Bandelier tuffs. The steep crater walls of the caldera have a height of up to 300 meters.

The most recent eruptions inside the caldera took place approximately 60000-50000 years ago. These formed the El Cajete cone, the landform of the Battleship skirt, the Banco Bonito rhyolite and the VC-1 rhyolite, which have formed within the caldera. The Redondo Peak is 3,430 meters above sea level, the highest elevation within the Calder complex, which has a variety of hot springs and fumaroles. Not far from the caldera there is an area of ​​low seismic activity.

The Valles Caldera is located in a historically active volcanic zone of the Pleistocene and Holocene, which includes the Toledo Caldera, the Cerros del Rio volcanic field ( formed the eastern Pajarito Plateau this ) and the Caja del Rio Plateau belong.

Nowadays, the Valles Caldera is located in the area of ​​Bandelier National Monument, which is also used as a backdrop for Western.

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