A fissure vent is a linear volcanic vent through which lava erupts, usually without any explosive activity. The vent is usually a few meters wide and may be many kilometers long. This type of volcano is usually hard to recognize from the ground and from space because it has no central caldera and the surface is mostly flat. This article is about volcanoes in geology. ... Look up lava, Aa, pahoehoe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Space has been an interest for philosophers and scientists for much of human history. ... Satellite image of Santorini. ...
This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... The name Laki has more than one meaning:- A town called Laki in Plovdiv district in Bulgaria. ... Lanzarote is also the title of a novella by Michel Houellebecq, translated into English by Frank Wynne. ... São Jorge (also known in English as San Jorge) is an island in the central part of the Azores. ... Gran Canaria, rarely Grand Canary (archaic), is the third largest island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa and belonging to Spain. ... Fuerteventura, a Spanish island, is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. ... Estelí is the second largest town in northern Nicaragua (after Matagalpa). ... Ray Mountain is a tuya in Wells Gray-Clearwater Volcanic Field, British Columbia, Canada. ...