volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity. There are two main types: lava plateaus and pyroclastic plateaus. Lava plateaus are formed...

hills or escarpments. Plateaus can be formed by a number of processes, including upwelling of volcanic magma, extrusion of lava, and erosion by water...

large igneous provinces, lava plateaus, and mountain ranges. However, more have been recognized such as the large Ontong Java Plateau, and the Chilcotin Group...

British Columbia, Canada. Shield volcanoes are similar in origin to vast lava plateaus and flood basalts present in various parts of the world. These are eruptive...

slightly depressed lava plateau. The ancient Columbia River was forced into its present course by the northwesterly advancing lava. The lava, as it flowed...

and lava-covered plateaus in the northern part of the peninsula between the Narmada and Krishna rivers. The northwestern part of the Deccan Plateau, a...

represented by the presence of volcanoes, pyroclastic deposits and vast lava plains on the lunar surface. The volcanoes are typically in the form of small...

old. The plateau includes many small pyroclastic cones caused by explosions when water penetrated downward and came into contact with fresh lava. There...

area also occurred at the Oka Plateau and the Jom-Bolok volcanic field. The field is formed by a late Pliocene lava plateau. Several volcanoes formed under...

The Lorne plateau lavas are basaltic lava flows extruded in the late Silurian, 424 to 415 million years ago, which are found today in the Oban - Kerrera...

Idaho, Nevada, and Utah. The Dissected High Lava Plateau ecoregion is a broad to gently rolling basalt plateau cut by deep, sheer-walled canyons, with perennial...

trachyte and rhyolite which are in the form of lava flows and rock fragments. The Big Raven Plateau is subdivided into at least 10 geological formations...

needed] Little Ararat rises about 1,296 m (4,252 ft) above the Serdarbulak lava plateau, which forms a saddle connecting it with the main peak. On 8 November [O...

The Putorana Plateau (Russian: плато Путорана, romanized: plato Putorana) or the Putorana Mountains is a mountainous area in the Russian Federation. It...

horizontal beds of lava capping outward-dipping beds of fragmental volcanic rocks, and they often rise in isolation above a surrounding plateau. Tuyas are found...

southwest of Dease Lake. The complex encompasses a broad, steep-sided lava plateau that extends over 1,000 square kilometres (390 square miles). Its highest...

oval-shaped, north–south trending lava plateau on which local streams flow. The south and west sides of the plateau are marked by a well-defined but dissected...

is on a plateau bordered to the south by the Pink Cliffs and to the west by the cliffs of Cedar Breaks National Monument, and features lava flows and...

and sometimes voluminous eruptions of fluid basaltic lava usually builds up a thick lava plateau, rather than a single volcanic edifice. But there are...

lava field, sometimes called a lava bed, is a large, mostly flat area of lava flows. Such features are generally composed of highly fluid basalt lava...

park includes the Yatsugatake Mountains and the surrounding lava plateaus: Tateshina plateau, Kirigamine, and Utsukushigahara. It straddles the border between...

stratovolcano Mount Osore Mount Sanbe [ja] Mount Takahara [ja] Midagahara, lava plateau Tokachidake Volcano Group, stratovolcano Towada Caldera, caldera Mount...

Tharsis (/ˈθɑːrsɪs/) is a vast volcanic plateau centered near the equator in the western hemisphere of Mars. The region is home to the largest volcanoes...

Breakbones Plateau is a small lava plateau just north of Chimaera Flats on Candlemas Island, South Sandwich Islands. The feature is an interesting biological...

Caja del Rio (Spanish: "box of the river") is a dissected plateau, of volcanic origin, which covers approximately 84,000 acres of land in northern Santa...

covering much of central North Island of New Zealand with volcanoes, lava plateaus, and crater lakes. It contains the Taupō caldera complex, Ōkataina caldera...

and have basaltic lava which means the lava has low viscosity (viscosity is a measure of the ability for a liquid to flow) Lava plateau of the Mount Edziza...

volcanoes, shield volcanoes and lava domes. The approximately 1,000-square-kilometre (400-square-mile) volcanic plateau forming the base of the MEVC owes...

andesitic to dacitic flows of lava covered increasingly larger areas of this formation to eventually form the lava plateau upon which the park is situated...

resulted in a pronounced unconformity between the two, with the Fregat lava plateau experiencing differential vertical movement. The northern part of Kunashir...