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Image: Cathedral Cliff (Navajo Volcanic Field, northwestern New Mexico, USA)

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Description: Cathedral Cliff volcanic neck (a.k.a. Table Mesa Plug) in New Mexico, USA. The Navajo Volcanic Field in the Four Corners area of the American southwest has about 80 old, eroded volcanic centers (volcanic necks/volcanic plugs/diatremes) of Oligocene to Miocene age. Locality: Cathedral Cliff, western side of Rt. 491/Rt. 666, adjacent to Table Mesa, between the towns of Newcomb and Shiprock, San Juan County, northwestern New Mexico, USA
Title: Cathedral Cliff (Navajo Volcanic Field, northwestern New Mexico, USA)
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Author: James St. John
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