Cerro la Jara
by Jon Burch Photography
Title
Cerro la Jara
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture/faa Watermark Will Not Be On Your Finished Photograph.
Description
About one million years ago, this valley was formed by surface collapse, after a series of tremendous volcanic eruptions ejected a volume of material more than 500 times greater than the May 1982 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in Washington. This collapse climaxed more than 13 million years of volcanism in the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico.
Liquid magma, erupting as recently as 50,000 years ago formed the relatively small foreground hill and the higher ground on the distant skyline to form the enormous Valles Caldera. This heat from young volcanism created enough geothermal energy to push up this small dome known as Cerro la Jara.
Some digital effects were applied to the original image after the photograph was made. No electrons were harmed during the transition. Ordered images will not contain the FAA watermark
Image copyright 2017 Jon Burch Photography.
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March 27th, 2017
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