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    A diatreme, sometimes known as a maar-diatreme volcano, is a volcanic pipe associated with a gaseous explosion. When magma rises up through a crack in...
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  • The Mountain Diatreme is a diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located 190 km (118 mi) southwest of Norman Wells. It has a diameter of 600 m...
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  • The HP diatreme, also called the HP pipe, is a diatreme in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 50 km (31 mi) northeast...
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  • The Cross diatreme is a diatreme in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 60 km (37 mi) east of the Rocky Mountain Trench and 8 km (5 mi) northeast...
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  • The Aristifats Diatreme is a diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located about 100 km (62 mi) east of Yellowknife. It is thought to have formed...
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  • The Blackfoot diatreme is a diatreme in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Cranbrook. It is 1,000 m (3,281 ft) in...
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    incompletely preserved tephra and agglomerate facies. These are generally diatreme events and as such are not lava flows although tephra and ash deposits...
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  • The Elwin Bay diatreme, also called the Elwin Bay kimberlite, is a small post-Silurian kimberlite diatreme located approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) south of...
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    loose fragments of volcanic rocks and rocks torn from the walls of the diatreme. The name maar comes from a Moselle Franconian dialect word used for the...
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    chamber, torn loose from the walls of an erupting lava conduit or explosive diatreme or picked up along the base of a flowing body of lava on the Earth's surface...
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    volatile rich magma or volcanic eruptions are referred to generally as diatremes. Diatremes are not usually associated with diapirs, as they are small-volume...
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  • highway) K-19: The Widowmaker, an American historical drama film K19 pipe, a diatreme in Northern Alberta, Canada Albany Municipal Airport (Missouri) Keratin...
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    Crater of Diamonds State Park (category Diatremes of the United States)
    Crater of Diamonds State Park is a 911-acre (369 ha) Arkansas state park in Pike County, Arkansas, in the United States. The park features a 37.5-acre...
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    Udachnaya pipe (category Diatremes of Russia)
    The Udachnaya pipe (Russian: Уда́чная, IPA: [ʊˈdat͡ɕnəɪ̯ə]; lit. 'Lucky') is a diamond deposit in the Daldyn-Alakit kimberlite field in Sakha Republic...
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    accumulation of xenoliths within a feeder conduit or vent conduit, forming a diatreme breccia pipe. Impact breccias are thought to be diagnostic of an impact...
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    Volcanic pipe (category Diatremes)
    eruption of deep-origin volcanoes. They are considered to be a type of diatreme. Volcanic pipes are composed of a deep, narrow cone of solidified magma...
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    that never reached the surface when magma/lava. The root material of a diatreme is identical to intrusive material nearby, if it exists, that never reached...
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  • The Deadhorse Creek diatreme complex is a diatreme complex in northwestern Ontario, Canada, located approximately 25 km (16 mi) west of Marathon. It is...
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  • is in two diatreme breccias, named the Peñasco and the Brecha Azul. The mineralization contains gold, silver, lead and zinc. The diatremes flare upward...
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    Ekati Diamond Mine (category Diatremes of the Northwest Territories)
    The Ekati Diamond Mine, often simply called Ekati, is Canada's first surface and underground diamond mine and is owned by Burgundy Diamond Mines. It is...
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    Diavik Diamond Mine (category Diatremes of the Northwest Territories)
    The Diavik Diamond Mine is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about 300 km (190 mi) northeast of Yellowknife...
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    of the crystalline residue. The resultant magma rises as a diapir, or diatreme, along pre-existing fractures, and can be emplaced deep in the crust, or...
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  • "Complex subvolcanic magma plumbing system of an alkali basaltic maar-diatreme volcano (Elie Ness, Fife, Scotland)" (PDF). Lithos. 264: 70–85. doi:10...
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    development mechanics of the Earth's morphostructures. Part II: The nature of diatreme, karst and trappean formations, and the chicxulub crater origin". Journal...
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  • Mount Amorong (category Diatremes of the Philippines)
    Philippines. Mount Amorong is one of a cluster of small lava domes and diatremes. It is the only one which currently exhibits any volcanic-related activities...
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    crater, diatreme and hypabyssal rocks. The morphology of kimberlite pipes and their classical carrot shape is the result of explosive diatreme volcanism...
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    a void. Maar: a depression resulting from phreatomagmatic eruption or diatreme explosion. Aral–Caspian Depression Baetic Depression Bodélé Depression...
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    younger coal beds in the region. The released gases created over 6400 diatreme-like pipes, each typically over 1.6 kilometres (1 mi) in diameter. The...
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    Jwaneng diamond mine (category Diatremes of Botswana)
    The Jwaneng diamond mine is the richest diamond mine in the world, and also the second largest in the world. It is nicknamed "the Prince of Mines", and...
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    Big Hole (category Diatremes of South Africa)
    The Kimberley Mine or Tim Kuilmine (Afrikaans: Groot Gat) is an open-pit and underground mine in Kimberley, South Africa, and claimed to be the deepest...
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