Volcanic field
The north face of Mount Garibaldi rises above The Table and Garibaldi Lake in the Garibaldi Lake volcanic field.
A volcanic field is an area of the Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity. They usually contain 10 to 100 volcanoes such as cinder cones and are usually in clusters. Lava flows may also occur. They may occur as a monogenetic volcanic field or a polygenetic volcanic field.
Examples
Karapınar Field in Turkey
SP Crater in the San Francisco volcanic field is a cinder cone with a basalt lava flow that extends for 4 miles (6 km).
Canada
- Atlin Volcanic Field, British Columbia
- Desolation Lava Field, British Columbia
- Garibaldi Lake volcanic field, British Columbia
- Mount Cayley volcanic field, British Columbia
- Tuya Volcanic Field, British Columbia
- Wells Gray-Clearwater volcanic field, British Columbia
- Wrangell Volcanic Field, Yukon Territory
United States
- Boring Lava Field, Oregon
- Clear Lake Volcanic Field, California
- Coso Volcanic Field, California
- Indian Heaven, Washington
- Central Colorado volcanic field, Colorado
- Marysvale Volcanic Field, Utah
- San Juan volcanic field, Colorado
- Raton-Clayton volcanic field, New Mexico
- San Francisco volcanic field, Arizona
- Taos Plateau volcanic field, Taos County, New Mexico
- Trans-Pecos Volcanic Field, Texas
- Wrangell Volcanic Field, Alaska
- San Bernardino Volcanic Field, Arizona
Mexico
Others
- Auckland Volcanic Field, North Island, New Zealand
- Bombalai Hill, Sabah, Malaysia
- Chaîne des Puys, Auvergne, France
- Cu-Lao Re Group, Vietnam
- Laguna Volcanic Field, Philippines
- Meidob Volcanic Field, Sudan
- Haruj, Fezzan, Libya
- Vulkan Eifel, Germany
See also
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