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Estados Unidos · Campo volcánico

Behm Canal-Rudyerd Bay

Tipo
Campo volcánico
Altitud
500 m
Última erupción
Desconocido
Scoria cones and columnar-jointed lava flows of the Behm Canal-Rudyerd Bay volcanic field occur on either side of Behm Canal (down the center of this image), shown in this October 2020 Planet Labs satellite image monthly mosaic (N is at the top; this image is approximately 20 km across). The majority of outcrops have been found on Revillagigedo Island (left), and additional features are on Rudyerd Island (near the center).
Scoria cones and columnar-jointed lava flows of the Behm Canal-Rudyerd Bay volcanic field occur on either side of Behm Canal (down the center of this image), shown in this October 2020 Planet Labs satellite image monthly mosaic (N is at the top; this image is approximately 20 km across). The majority of outcrops have been found on Revillagigedo Island (left), and additional features are on Rudyerd Island (near the center). · Foto: Satellite image courtesy of Planet Labs Inc., 2020 (https://www.planet.com/).
Tipo
Campo volcánico
País
Estados Unidos
Región
América del Norte / Northern Cordilleran Volcanic Province
Altitud
500 m
Coordenadas
55.350, -131.000
Última erupción
Desconocido
Contexto tectónico
Intraplaca / Corteza continental (> 25 km)
Forma volcánica
Grupo volcánico
Roca principal
Basalto / Picrobasalto

Resumen geológico

Original en inglés

Numerous basaltic cinder cones and lava flows occur in the panhandle of SE Alaska on both sides of Behm Canal, which divides Revillagigedo Island from the mainland.

Extracto del Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Leer el resumen completo en el GVP →

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