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  2. Bishop Tuff - Wikipedia

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    The Bishop Tuff is a welded tuff which formed 764,800 ± 600 years ago as a rhyolitic pyroclastic flow during the approximately six-day eruption that formed the Long Valley Caldera. [1] [2] [3] Large outcrops of the tuff are located in Inyo and Mono Counties, California, United States. Approximately 200 cubic kilometers of ash and tuff erupted ...

  3. Long Valley Caldera - Wikipedia

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    The southeastern slope from the caldera down towards Bishop, California, is filled with the Bishop Tuff, solidified ash that was ejected during the eruption that created the caldera. The Bishop tuff is 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) thick in the caldera floor, [3] and is cut by the Owens River Gorge, formed during the Pleistocene when the caldera ...

  4. List of large volume volcanic eruptions in the Basin and ...

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    San Luis caldera complex (18 km (11 mi) wide), Wheeler Geologic Area, San Juan volcanic field, Colorado; 27 Ma, 150 km 3 (36 cu mi) of Rat Creek Tuff. [ 8 ] [ 28 ] Three Creeks Caldera (8 km (5.0 mi) wide), Marysvale Volcanic Field, Cove Fort -Sulphurdale area, southwestern Utah; 27 Ma; 100 to 200 km 3 (24 to 48 cu mi) of Three Creeks Tuff ...

  5. Mono–Inyo Craters - Wikipedia

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    Volcanic ash from the massive (600 cubic kilometres or 140 cubic miles of ejecta) eruption of Long Valley Caldera some 760,000 years ago is preserved in the thick Bishop Tuff that covers much of the region.

  6. Owens River Gorge - Wikipedia

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    Rocks from the Bishop tuff, Owens River Gorge.Uncompressed with pumice on left; compressed with fiamme on right.. The Owens River Gorge was formed when the Owens River cut through the Bishop Tuff: a layer of welded ash formed from the eruption of the Long Valley Caldera. [1]

  7. List of large volcanic eruptions - Wikipedia

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    Bishop Tuff: 7 Kapenga Caldera Taupō Volcanic Zone: Un­known 830 Matahana B 7 Calabozos: Andes, Southern Volcanic Zone Un­known 840 Loma Seca Tuff-Unit L 8 Lake Toba Caldera: Sunda Arc, Sumatra 5,290 [13] 840 Toba Tuff 7 Shishimuta Caldera: Kyūshū Un­known 870 Imaichi Ignimbrite 7 Tondano Caldera: North Sulawesi, Sulawesi 600 - 950 870 7 ...

  8. 2021-22 Standard-Times Boys Cross Country Runner of the ... - AOL

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    In just his second year of running cross country, Caldera had the fastest 5K time in the SouthCoast this fall and led Stang to a divisional title. 2021-22 Standard-Times Boys Cross Country Runner ...

  9. Tephra - Wikipedia

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    Rocks from the Bishop tuff, uncompressed with pumice on left; compressed with fiamme on right. Tephra is any sized or composition pyroclastic material produced by an explosive volcanic eruption and precise geological definitions exist. [2]