Boot Heel volcanic field
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boot-heel-volcanic-field-226-2024819
title:
Boot Heel volcanic field
text:
The Boot Heel volcanic field is located in the Bootheel region of southwest New Mexico, adjacent areas of southeastern Arizona, and northwest Mexico. The field covers an area of more than 24,000 km. The field includes nine volcanic calderas ranging in age from 26.9 to 35.3 Ma. Extrusive products include rhyolitic ignimbrites along with basalt, andesite, and rhyolite lava flows. The major ash flow tuff sheets produced, range in volume from 35 to 650 km. Activity throughout most of the Boot Heel
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Landform in Mexico and United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Heel_volcanic_field
date created:
2007-05-08T01:18:04Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T01:19:04Z
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16