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Encyclopedia > Fissure vent

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. ...


List of Fissure vent volcanoes

Name Elevation Location Last eruption
metres feet Coordinates
Laki - - 64.42° N 17.33° W 1783
Lanzarote 670 2198 29.03° N 13.63° W 1824
Cordon Caulle 1798 5899 40.46° N 72.25° W 1960
São Jorge 1053 3455 38.65° N 28.08° W 1907
Vatnafjoll 1235 4052 63.92° N 19.67° W 1200 BP
Quetena 5730 18799 22.25° S 67.42° W Unknown
Nejapa Miraflores 360 1181 12.12° N 86.32° W Unknown
Manda Inakir 600+ 1968 12.38° N 42.20° E 1928
Hertali 900? 2953 9.78° N 40.33° E Unknown
Gran Canaria 1950 6350 28.00° N 15.58° W less than 1000 BP
Fuerteventura 529 1736 28.358° N 14.02° W Unknown
Esteli 899 2949 13.17° N 86.40° W Unknown
Butajiri Silti Field 2281 7484 8.05° N 83.85° E Unknown
Bishoftu Volcanic Field 1850+ 6069 8.78° N 38.98° E Unknown
Alu 429 1407 13.82° N 40.55° E Unknown
Singu Plateau 507 1663 22.70° N 95.98° E Unknown
Ray Mountain 2050 - 52.23° N 120.12° W Pleistocene

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. ...

External links

  • Volcanolive.com Page on Fissure Vents


 
 

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