Image: Pinacate volcanic field

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Description: The Pinacate volcanic field is a roughly 55 x 60 km area containing numerous maars, tuff rings, and cinder cones in NW México near the head of the Gulf of California. The crater rim in the center of the photo is that of Crater Elegante, a 1.6-km-wide maar. Part of El Pinacate y Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve — Sonora.
Title: Pinacate volcanic field
Credit: http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=1401-001&volpage=photos&photo=036006
Author: Richard Waitt, U.S. Geological Survey
Permission: PD
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