volcanic rift zone

volcanic rift zone
Макаров: вулканическая рифтовая зона

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  • Rift zone — A rift zone is a feature of some volcanoes, especially the shield volcanoes of Hawaii, in which a linear series of fissures in the volcanic edifice allows lava to be erupted from the volcano s flank instead of from its summit. For example, in the …   Wikipedia

  • rift zone — USGS PHOTO GLOSSARY OF VOLCANIC TERMS A rift zone is an elongate system of crustal fractures associated with an area that has undergone extension (ground has spread apart). On the great shield volcanoes in Hawai i, a rift zone consists of many… …   Glossary of volcanic terms

  • Baikal Rift Zone — [ USGS factsheet] The Baikal Rift Zone is a divergent plate boundary centered beneath Lake Baikal in southeastern Russia. To its west is the Eurasian Plate and to its east is the Amur Plate which is moving away from the rift toward Japan at about …   Wikipedia

  • Rift — Chasm redirects here. For other uses, see Chasm (disambiguation). For other uses, see Rift (disambiguation). USGS image Plates in the crust of the earth, accordin …   Wikipedia

  • Zone volcanique de Taupo — Les monts Ruapehu, Ngauruhoe et Tongariro …   Wikipédia en Français

  • Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province — NCVP …   Wikipedia

  • Mount Edziza volcanic complex — Mount Edziza, one of the main volcanoes of the Mount Edziza volcanic complex Elevation …   Wikipedia

  • Non-volcanic passive margins — (NVPM) constitute one end member of the transitional crustal types that lie beneath passive continental margins; the other end member being volcanic passive margins (VPM). Transitional crust welds continental crust to oceanic crust along the… …   Wikipedia

  • East African Rift — The East African Rift is part of the larger Great Rift Valley. It is a continental rift zone that appears to be a developing divergent tectonic plate boundary. The rift is a narrow zone in which the African Plate is in the process of splitting… …   Wikipedia

  • Gulf of Suez Rift — The Gulf of Suez Rift is a continental rift zone active between the Late Oligocene (ca. 28 Ma) and the end of the Miocene (ca. 5 Ma) [Khalil,S.M. and McClay,K.R.2001.Tectonic evolution of the NW Red Sea Gulf of Suez rift system. In:WILSON, R.C.L …   Wikipedia

  • Types of volcanic eruptions — In this article types of eruption will be used to refer to the mechanism causing the eruption. The style of eruption will be used to describe subcategories of eruption, which have the same eruptive mechanism. For example strombolian and vulcanian …   Wikipedia


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