A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure, eruption fissure or simply a fissure, is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without...
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flow. A fissure vent, also known as a volcanic fissure or eruption fissure, is a long volcanic vent through which lava erupts. Fissure vents are connected...
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Volcano (redirect from Volcanic vent)
volcanoes except when the mud volcano is actually a vent of an igneous volcano. Volcanic fissure vents are flat, linear fractures through which lava emerges...
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Brennisteinsfjoll, crater rows Eldey, fissure vent Esjufjoll, stratovolcano Eyjafjallajokull, stratovolcano Fagradalsfjall, fissure vent Fremrinamar, stratovolcano...
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Fagradalsfjall (category Fissure vents)
for 815 years on the Reykjanes Peninsula until 19 March 2021 when a fissure vent appeared in Geldingadalir to the south of Fagradalsfjall mountain. The...
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Hydrothermal vents are fissures on the seabed from which geothermally heated water discharges. They are commonly found near volcanically active places...
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Tor Zawar is a disputed fissure vent volcano in western Pakistan and the only recent volcano in Pakistan. Its first, and so far only, eruption occurred...
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Laki (redirect from Laki fissure)
Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure in the western part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland, not far from the volcanic fissure of Eldgjá and the small village...
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animal Vent DNA polymerase, a thermostable DNA polymerase Hydrothermal vent, a fissure in a planet's surface from which geothermally heated water issues Volcano...
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List of volcanic eruptions in Iceland (section Index map of eruptions, fissures, glaciers and notable sites)
a segment of a 40 kilometres (25 mi) chain of volcanic craters and fissure vents that extends northeast away from Katla. Part of the East volcanic zone...
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hiking up on Eyjafjallajökull to inspect the craters. They discovered a fissure vent near the summit caldera a bit to the west of Guðnasteinn.: 4 In early...
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Sundhnúkur (category Fissure vents)
volcanic hill, within its associated Sundhnúksgígar crater row and volcanic fissures (Sundhnúksgígaröðin [ˈsʏntˌn̥uksˌciːɣaˌrœːðɪn]) in the Svartsengi volcanic...
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groove in the cerebral cortex Fissure vein, a vein of ore aggregated in a fissure Fissure vent, a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually...
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Baugur (crater) (category Fissure vents)
Lava fountains on 13 September 2014 at the fissure's main crater named Baugur....
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volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists. These are often named after...
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phases in a two-stage eruption from at least two different vents along a 8 km (5.0 mi) long fissure. The total dense rock equivalent (DRE) was at least 9.1 km3...
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Lanzarote (category Fissure vents)
Lanzarote (UK: /ˌlænzəˈrɒti/, Spanish: [lanθaˈɾote] , locally [lansaˈɾote]) is a Spanish island, the easternmost of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic...
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Eldgjá (category Fissure vents)
volcanic craters and fissure vents that extends northeast away from Katla volcano almost to the Vatnajökull ice cap. This fissure experienced a major eruption...
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Puaʻi. In fissure-type eruptions, lava spurts from a fissure on the volcano's rift zone and feeds lava streams that flow downslope. In central-vent eruptions...
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Krafla (category Fissure vents)
The Mývatn fires occurred between 1724 and 1729, when many of the fissure vents opened up. The lava fountains could be seen in the south of the island...
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Ljósufjöll (category Fissure vents)
Ljósufjöll (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈljouːsʏˌfjœtl̥] ) is a fissure vent system and central volcano on the Snæfellsnes Peninsula in Iceland. The name...
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rift eruptions. Fissure venting is common in Hawaiʻi; most Hawaiian eruptions begin with a so-called "wall of fire" along a major fissure line before centralizing...
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Benguet, Philippines. Batholith – Large igneous rock intrusion Fissure vent – Linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts Laccolith – Mass of igneous rock...
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Hertali (category Fissure vents)
Hertali is a fissure vent in Ethiopia. The fissure vent is believed to have been active through the late Pleistocene to Holocene. "Hertali". Global Volcanism...
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new eruptive vents tended to announce themselves with a phreatic explosion, followed soon after by the opening of a new fissure vent in the same location...
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that is formed in a fracture of a pre-existing rock body Fissure vent – Linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts Geyser – Natural explosive eruption...
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Gran Canaria (category Fissure vents)
of Fuerteventura. The island is of volcanic origin, mostly made of fissure vents. It has a round shape, with a diameter of approximately 50 km (31 mi)...
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Puyehue-Cordón Caulle (category Fissure vents)
Cordillera Nevada caldera, the Pliocene Mencheca volcano, Cordón Caulle fissure vents and the Puyehue stratovolcano. Like most stratovolcanoes in the Southern...
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Hengill (category Fissure vents)
Hengill volcano. Extending to the north-east from the central volcano is a fissure swarm with a number of tindars associated with an asymmetrical graben....
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São Jorge Island (category Fissure vents)
and slender and susceptible to ocean erosion. The island was built on fissural volcanism associated with the plate tectonics of the mid-Atlantic Ridge...
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