Yemen · Campo vulcanico

Harra es-Sawad

Sawad, Harra Es-

Tipo: Campo vulcanico
Altitudine: 1737 m
Ultima eruzione: 1253

The Harra es-Sawâd (or Shuqra) volcanic field covers an area nearly 100 km across the Southern Yemen along the Gulf of Aden, shown in this December 2019 Planet Labs satellite image monthly mosaic (N is at the top; this image is approximately 104 km across). There are around 100 identified cones, and a lava field that covers an area of 40 x 95 km. · Foto: Satellite image courtesy of Planet Labs Inc., 2019 (https://www.planet.com/).

Tipo: Campo vulcanico
Paese: Yemen
Regione: Arabia e Asia centrale / Southwest Arabia Volcanic Province
Altitudine: 1737 m
Coordinate: 13.580, 46.120
Ultima eruzione: 1253
Contesto tettonico: Intraplacca / Crosta continentale (> 25 km)
Forma vulcanica: Gruppo vulcanico
Roccia principale: Trachibasalto / Tefrite basanite

Sintesi geologica

The Harra es-Sawâd (or Shuqra) volcanic field in southern Yemen extends for nearly 100 km along the Gulf of Aden, east of the city of Shuqra (Shaqra). The field is oriented WSW-ENE and contains about a hundred cones that have sent lava flows across a 40 x 95 km area of faulted basement limestones. Most of the volcanic field is Holocene in age (Cox et al., 1977), and in many cases the flows and cones are essentially uneroded. The only recorded event was a major, but poorly documented, eruption in 1253 CE.

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