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Zuñi Salt Lake, also Zuni Salt Lake is a rare high desert lake, and a classic maar, located in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, [3] about 60 miles (97 km) south of the Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
Red Hill is 24 kilometers (15 mi) east of the larger Springerville volcanic field and includes Zuñi Salt Lake. [1] The area is made up of scoria cone and silicic dome fields. [2] [3] [4] Over 40 volcanic vents have been identified in the field. [5] These erupted basaltic flows, with no other rock types evident in the field. [6]
The Crocodile Lake in Los Baños in the Philippines, though originally thought to be a volcanic crater, is a maar. The carbon dioxide-saturated Lake Nyos in northwestern Cameroon is another example, as is Zuñi Salt Lake in New Mexico, a shallow saline lake that occupies a flat-floored crater about 6,500 ft (2,000 m) across and 400 ft (120 m) deep.
Crater Lake (Oregon) (10 P) Pages in category "Sacred lakes of the Americas" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. ... Zuñi Salt Lake
Crater Lake -- cryptorheic ... Zuni Salt Lake ; Tularosa Basin (New Mexico, Texas) Guzmán Basin (Chihuahua, Mexico, southwestern New Mexico)
Also known as the Quemado volcanic field, Red Hill is 24 kilometers east of the larger Springerville volcanic field and immediately south of the Zuni Salt Lake field. The area is made up of scoria cone and silicic dome fields [3] [4] The last eruption was 23,000 yrs B.P. [5]
Crater Lake actually started as a mountain, Mount Mazama. A volcanic eruption roughly 7,700 years ago caused the mountain to collapse inward over time, forming a volcanic crater, the park says.
Zuni Salt Lake and Sanctuary - The Pueblo people of the Southwest have made annual pilgrimages to Zuñi Salt Lake to harvest salt, for both culinary and ceremonial purposes for thousands of years. Ancient roadways radiate out from the lake to the various pueblos and ancient pueblo sites.