Valles Caldera: A Geologic History

by Fraser Goff

The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten postcollapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. For over a century, it was safeguarded within the 89,000-acre Baca Ranch. In the year 2000, Congress passed the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, creating the Valles Caldera Trust to purchase the ranch and create a nine-member board of trustees responsible for the protection and development of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826345905
• ISBN13: 9780826345905
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"