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Image: Cochetopa Dome and caldera, San Juan Mountains, USGS, 2012

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Description: Panoramic view of Cochetopa Dome (sequence of rhyolitic lava flows within caldera) and north walls of Cochetopa Park caldera, viewed from south. Cloud-obscured northwest caldera rim, at left of image, is Sawtooth Mountain (12,147 ft); northeast caldera rim is marked by Razor Creek Dome and Green Mountain on right side. Light-colored eroding outcrops in foreground are weakly indurated tuff and volcaniclastic sedimentary fill of the caldera basin.
Title: Cochetopa Dome and caldera, San Juan Mountains, USGS, 2012
Credit: Lipman, P.W., 2012, Geologic map of the Cochetopa Park and North Pass Calderas, northeastern San Juan Mountains, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Map 3123, pamphlet 48 p., 2 sheets, scale 1:50,000. (Available at https://pubs.usgs.gov/sim/3123/.)
Author: Peter W. Lipman
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