The Valles Caldera consists of a twelve-mile-wide collapsed volcanic crater and more than ten post collapse volcanic domes in New Mexico's Jemez Mountains. In 2000, Congress passed the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, creating a Trust to oversee the protection and development of the Valles Caldera National Preserve.
This book offers a summary of significant geologic events that have taken place in the Valles Caldera area and presents the geology, volcanology and geothermal characteristics of the Caldera and the Jemez volcanic field.
Fraser Goff is adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico.