Figure1: With over 400 vents, the Springerville Volcanic Field in
Arizona is typical large volcanic field located on the margins of
the Colorado Plateau in the western United States. Most of the mapped
vents formed between 2.1 and 0.3 Ma during volumetrically steady-state
volcanism. Studies of vent distribution and timing have shown that rates
of activity varied from cluster to cluster, suggesting that individual
source regions for magma were localized and short-lived compared to the
entire volcanic field. This idea is supported by geochemical trends. Vent
symbols correspond to clusters, thick shading shows vent alignments, thin
lines show faults.