• 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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    materials. Finally, two layers of deposits formed the Fissural Volcanic System of Picos between the volcanic Água de Pau and Sete Cidades from 31,000 years ago...
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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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    Central volcanic activity has been accompanied, since 3 Ma, by mostly basaltic fissure eruptions at a three-armed Y-shaped radial rift zone system that has...
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    Mount Etna (category 17th-century volcanic events)
    shut down for a few hours. Volcanic gas emissions from this volcano are measured by a multi-component gas analyzer system, which detects pre-eruptive...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Lassen Volcanic National Park is a national park of the United States in northeastern California. The dominant feature of the park is Lassen Peak, the...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    steam to extract boric acid from volcanic mud in Larderello, Italy. In 1892, the US's first district heating system in Boise, Idaho was powered by geothermal...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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