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Fish Canyon Tuff

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Lake, Ethan T.; Farmer, G. Lang (May 2015). "Oligo-Miocene mafic intrusions of the San Juan Volcanic Field, southwestern Colorado, and their relationship to voluminous, caldera-forming magmas".
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Bachmann, O. (August 2002). "The Fish Canyon Magma Body, San Juan Volcanic Field, Colorado: Rejuvenation and Eruption of an Upper-Crustal Batholith".
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Geologic map of the central San Juan caldera cluster, southwestern Colorado (Report). 2006.
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show that it all belongs to one eruption due to its uniform bulk-chemical composition (SiO
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crystals from the Fish Canyon Tuff (FCTs) are used as a reference mineral in
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are the primary phenocrysts). This tuff and eruption is part of the larger
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List of large volume volcanic eruptions in the Basin and Range Province
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The Fish Canyon Tuff eruption occurred around 28 Million years ago.
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on Earth, estimated at 1,200 cu mi (5,000 km). (see
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Phillips, D.; Matchan, E.L.; Dalton, H.; Kuiper, K.F. (May 2022).
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Oligocene Southern Rocky Mountain ignimbrite flare-up
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ignimbrite
La Garita Caldera
Type
Ignimbrite Eruption
Colorado
37°45′23″N 106°56′03″W / 37.75639°N 106.93417°W / 37.75639; -106.93417
VEI
volcanic ash
ignimbrite
explosive eruptions
List of largest volcanic eruptions
La Garita Caldera
Colorado
tuff
dacite
rhyolite
phenocryst
plagioclase
sanidine
quartz
biotite
hornblende
sphene
apatite
zircon
oxides
San Juan volcanic field
Oligocene Southern Rocky Mountain ignimbrite flare-up
Sanidine

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