Volcanic field

San Francisco volcanic field in Arizona

Crater in the Bayuda volcanic field

A volcanic field (s: Volcanic field ) is a larger collection of volcanoes , mostly cinder cones and crater lakes , but also Tuffringe or small shield volcanoes occur. In many cases it is a question of monogenetic volcanoes , then one speaks of the monogenetic volcanic field .

Typically volcanic fields have a diameter of 30 to 80 km and are home to 10 to 100, in individual cases over 1000 volcanoes.

Examples:

• Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field in Mexico with over 1000 volcanoes
• Westeifel -Vulkanfeld in Germany with about 240 volcanoes
• Auckland Volcanic Field in New Zealand with around 50 volcanoes
• Bayuda volcanic field in Sudan

literature

• Hans-Ulrich Schmincke: Vulcanism . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 2000, ISBN 3-534-17471-2 .

Web links

• Monogenetic volcanic fields at the USGS (English)
• Michoacán Vulkanfeld in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)