Springerville volcanic field is a
monogenetic volcanic field
A volcanic field is an area of Earth's Earth's crust, crust that is prone to localized volcano, volcanic activity. The type and number of volcanoes required to be called a "field" is not well-defined. Volcanic fields usually consist of clusters ...
located in east-central
Arizona
Arizona is a U.S. state, state in the Southwestern United States, Southwestern region of the United States, sharing the Four Corners region of the western United States with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the nort ...
between
Springerville and
Show Low. The field consists of 405 discrete vents covering approximately
and is the third-largest such field in the continental United States; only the
San Francisco volcanic field
The San Francisco volcanic field is an area of volcanoes in northern Arizona, north of Flagstaff, US. The field covers 1,800 square miles (4,700 km2) of the southern boundary of the Colorado Plateau. The field contains 600 volcanoes rangi ...
and
Medicine Lake volcanic field are larger.
[
] The total erupted volume is estimated at .
The field is located towards the western end of the
Jemez Lineament
The Jemez Lineament is a chain of late Cenozoic volcanic fields, long, reaching from the Springerville and White Mountains volcanic fields in East-Central Arizona to the Raton-Clayton volcanic field in Northeastern New Mexico.
The lineament w ...
.
Notable vents
Economic resources
The St. Johns
carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula . It is made up of molecules that each have one carbon atom covalent bond, covalently double bonded to two oxygen atoms. It is found in a gas state at room temperature and at norma ...
reservoir is located in the northwest part of the Springerville volcanic field and has estimated reserves of 445 billion cubic meters. Effort since the mid-1990s to either extract
helium
Helium (from ) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, inert gas, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is ...
from the reservoir or to ship carbon dioxide to the
Permian Basinc for
enhanced oil recovery
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have not come to fruition. A more recent
US Department of Energy
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proposal is to use carbon dioxide from the reservoir as a
heat exchange fluid for extraction of
geothermal energy
Geothermal energy is thermal energy extracted from the crust (geology), crust. It combines energy from the formation of the planet and from radioactive decay. Geothermal energy has been exploited as a source of heat and/or electric power for m ...
from the volcanic field.
See also
*
List of volcanoes in the United States
This article contains a list of volcanoes in the United States and its territories.
Alaska
American Samoa
Arizona
California
Colorado
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Louisiana
Michigan
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
Ne ...
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List of volcanic fields
References
External links
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Volcanic fields of Arizona
Landforms of Apache County, Arizona
Monogenetic volcanic fields
White Mountains (Arizona)
Pleistocene volcanism