Kneeling Nun rock monument (32°47′02″N108°03′00″W / 32.784°N 108.050°W / 32.784; -108.050)
Named by
H.K. Jicha, Jr.
Year defined
1954
Kneeling Nun Tuff (the United States)
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Kneeling Nun Tuff (New Mexico)
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The Kneeling Nun Tuff is a geologic formation exposed in southwest New Mexico. It has a radiometric age of 35.3 million years, corresponding to the latest Eocene epoch.
The formation consists of over 900 cubic kilometers (220 cu mi) of tuff erupted by the Emory caldera of the Mogollon-Datil volcanic field. It has been studied by geologists seeking to understand the processes whereby supereruptions are triggered.
The KneelingNunTuff is a geologic formation exposed in southwest New Mexico. It has a radiometric age of 35.3 million years, corresponding to the latest...
Pyroclastic materials are the primary product, typically in the form of tuff. Eruptions the size of that at Lake Toba 74,000 years ago, at least 2,800...
Naomi E. Matthews (2014). "The magnitude and impact of the Youngest Toba Tuff super-eruption". Frontiers in Earth Science. 2: 16. Bibcode:2014FrEaS...2...
eruption was estimated to be a VEI 8 eruption, and it emplaced the KneelingNunTuff, a tuff bed covering an area of 314-square-mile (810 km2), which makes...
Rocks State Park; 33 Ma; VEI 8; 1,310 cubic kilometers (314 cu mi) of KneelingNunTuff. Socorro Caldera (size: 25 x 35 km), Rio Grande rift, Socorro, New...
of the king of Naples. Then Onorato Caetani, with the consent of all, kneeling before the king, he begged him to create Duke of Calabria and his future...
sanctuary. The dome itself is a rather irregular mixed masonry construction of tuff blocks, bricks and mortar, covered with lead sheets. There is a thin inner...
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