Lucero Volcano
Updated: Apr 20, 2024 04:10 GMT -
Volcanic field 2395 m / 7858 ft
New Mexico, United States, 34.42°N / -107.2°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
New Mexico, United States, 34.42°N / -107.2°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Lucero volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
The Miocene to Pleistocene Lucero volcanic field contains basaltic cinder cones, small shield volcanoes and tuff rings scattered over a 2000 km2 area. The latest eruptions took place only a few tens of thousand years ago (Baldridge, in Wood and Kienle, 1990).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information