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Long Valley

The Casa Diablo geothermal plant in the Long Valley caldera taps the high heat flow originating from a magma body beneath the Long Valley caldera. Several commercial and scientific exploratory holes have been drilled here to depths of 100 to 2000 m.

Photo by Larry Mastin, 1991 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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