The Picos Volcanic Fissural System (Portuguese: Sistema Vulcânico Fissural dos Picos) is a system of scoria cones that build up the central region of...
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other sections: the Pico Volcano and the East Fissural Zone. Pico is a stratovolcano (or composite), with a pit crater on its summit. Pico Alto is the round...
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The Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt (Spanish: Eje Volcánico Transversal), also known as the Transvolcanic Belt and locally as the Sierra Nevada (Snowy Mountain...
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faults there are ancient spatter cones and lava domes; The Picos Volcanic System or Picos Region – is situated along a northwest–southeast alignment,...
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Furnas do Enxofre and mixture of volcanic cones and plains São Jorge is a long slender island, formed from fissural eruptions over thousands of years...
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Fissural Zone: Connecting the eastern portion of Santa Bárbara, the western frontier of Pico Alto and Guilherme Moniz exist a grouping of fissural volcanoes...
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Mount Etna (category 17th-century volcanic events)
summit eruptions. Over a six-month period in 2021, Etna erupted so much volcanic material that its height increased by approximately 100 ft (30 m), and...
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ancient lava fields that developed from fissural vents, that flowed through the valley between the larger volcanic peaks. Initially known as the Galeria...
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This is a list of volcanic eruptions in the 21st century with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 4 or higher, and smaller eruptions that resulted in...
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Ring of Fire (section Volcanic eruptions)
Andes Austral Volcanic Zone South Volcanic Zone Central Volcanic Zone North Volcanic Zone Central America Volcanic Arc Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt North...
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of fissural volcanism runs along these accesses, and has resulted in volcanic features that are younger than the rest of the island; two volcanic complexes...
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Lassen Volcanic National Park is an American national park in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak, the largest plug...
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Terceira The tallest volcanic peak of Madeira, Pico Ruivo A cloud layer around Pico das Torres Looking towards the summit of Pico do Arieiro Geology of...
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Vulcão da Urzelina (category 19th-century volcanic events)
seismic activity (that produced approximately eight tremors per hour), a fissural eruption occurred in the foothills of Manadas. Its eruption, which also...
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is dominated by volcanic rock. The Canary Islands and some seamounts to the north-east form the Canary Volcanic Province, whose volcanic history started...
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from a west-northwest-east-southeast trending eruption fissure system on the east flank of the Pico del Teide. The eruption then transitioned into an explosive...
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Troll, Valentin R.; Barker, Abigail K. (July 2015). "Volcanic and structural evolution of Pico do Fogo, Cape Verde". Geology Today. 31 (4): 146–152....
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site of four large volcanoes (Pico Alto, Santa Bárbara, Guilherme Moniz, and Cinco Picos) grouped along a basaltic fissure zone that transects the island...
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zone that corresponds with the terminal area of basaltic fissural flows from the region of Pico da Bagacina, resulting in a gently sloping area towards...
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Tenerife (section Volcanic tubes)
area. Tenerife is a volcanic island that has built up from the ocean floor during the last 20 million years. Underwater fissural eruptions produced pillow...
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submarine eruption began, 7 km south of La Restinga. On 11 October the volcanic threat level at La Restinga was raised from "yellow" to "red" after minor...
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volcanic complex in the Antofagasta Region of Chile. It is directly south of the Cordón de Puntas Negras volcanic chain. Part of the Central Volcanic...
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cones which generated possibly Holocene-age lahars and lava flow. The volcanic system covers an area of 5,000 km2 and is one of the largest in the region...
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active volcanic crater was supposed to exist. What he found there was not a "crater" at all; instead, what he found was a series of fissures in the rock...
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skeletons Guyot – An isolated underwater volcanic mountain with a flat top Mid-ocean ridge – An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonic spreading...
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pine can tolerate relatively hostile environments such as high-elevation volcanic rock in Central Oregon (e.g. Crater Lake) and thin soils on the eastern...
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Muir Woods causing the tree to lean so much that a fissure developed in January 2003. This fissure grew larger as the tree slowly leaned more and more...
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caldera and extends through the ten principal volcanoes existing along the fissural alignment of Capelo. The biodiversity and geodiversity is a constant along...
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ecosystems, marked by volcanic calderas, lava fields, caves, pit caves, fumaroles, reefs, water courses and geological fissures. Each of these biotopes...
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(2021). A study on the age of escorias (glassy rock fragments similar to volcanic scoriae, likely products of extraterrestrial impacts) collected along the...
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