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A pluton, Cabeza de Vaca, lies in the southern and eastern sectors of the caldera and has dimensions of 52 by 1–7 kilometres (32.31 mi × 0.62 mi–4.35 mi). Within the caldera several smaller calderas formed, from north to south Caldera Cerro Puquios, Caldera Bellavista, Caldera Agua Nueva, Caldera El Durazno and Caldera Lomas Bayas.
Long Valley Caldera in eastern California; Mono-Inyo Craters. These were ranked "high threat potential": [4] Mono-Inyo Craters in eastern California; Clear Lake Volcanic Field north of the San Francisco Bay Area; Medicine Lake Volcano in far-northern California, northeast of Mt Shasta; Salton Buttes in far-southern California, at the Salton Sea ...
The caldera was classified in 2018 by the U.S. Geological Survey as one of three volcanoes in the state — along with 15 ... Caldera who is now with the USGS' Cascades Volcano Observatory, said ...
An unusually cold weather system from the Gulf of Alaska interrupted summer along the West Coast on Saturday, bringing snow to mountains in California and the Pacific Northwest and prompting the ...
The major volcanoes of the Cascade Range are fed from heat generated as tectonic plates dive below North America.. All rock now exposed in the area of the park is volcanic, and unconformably overlies much older sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rock, [6] which was formed during the hundreds of millions of years when the Lassen region underwent repeated uplifting to form mountains, only to ...
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake was reported off the coast of Northern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey. The epicenter of the "strong" quake was off the coast ...
Cima volcanic field is a volcanic field in San Bernardino County, California, close to the border with Nevada. [3] [4] The volcanic field covers a surface area of 600 km 2 (230 sq mi) within the Mojave National Preserve west of the Cima Dome and consists of about 40 volcanic cones with about 60 lava flows.
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