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 Basanite, alkali basalt, theoleiitic basalt.

 Older lava flows cap mesas on the eastern edge of the field and overlying the monoclinal eastward dipping margin of the Rio Grande rift. Cerro Verde, one of the younger centers of volcanism, us a classic basaltic shield volcan that fed lava flows 42 km long and occupying the margins of the modern Rio San Jose, a eastward draining tributary of the Rio Puerco and Rio Grande. 

Cerro Colorado  ("Volcano Hill")

Lucero Mesa monocline (above)

Lucero Geo regional (above)

Cerro Verde

Black Mesa slumps (Lucero Field)

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References

Baldridge, W. S. Perry, F. V., and Shafiqullah, M., 1987, Late Cenozoic volcanism of the southeastern Colorado Plateau: I. Volcanic geology of the Lucero area, New Mexico: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 99, p. 463-470.

Baldridge, W. S , 1990. Lucero, New Mexico; in Wood, C. A., and Kienle, J. (eds), Volcanoes of North America: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 305-306.