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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-07951

A cluster of cinder cones of the Camargo volcanic field lies within the arid northern Bolsón de Mapimí graben in north-central México, about 150 km SW of Big Bend National Park in Texas.  More than 300 volcanic vents, mostly cinder cones and lava cones, are located in a broad 2500 km2 lava plateau that extends 60 km E-W and 70 km N-S.  The Camargo field is mostly Pliocene in age, but activity continued into the Pleistocene. Photo by Jim Luhr, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

A cluster of cinder cones of the Camargo volcanic field lies within the arid northern Bolsón de Mapimí graben in north-central México, about 150 km SW of Big Bend National Park in Texas. More than 300 volcanic vents, mostly cinder cones and lava cones, are located in a broad 2500 km2 lava plateau that extends 60 km E-W and 70 km N-S. The Camargo field is mostly Pliocene in age, but activity continued into the Pleistocene.

Photo by Jim Luhr, 1996 (Smithsonian Institution).

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