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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-08898

Agricultural field on the floor of Marteles Maar are seen in the foreground, with several cinder cones in the background. These are part of a group of Quaternary monogenetic volcanoes in northern Gran Canaria. Eruptions of Holocene age have been restricted to the northern, primarily north-eastern, part of the island, including at Las Isletas, a peninsula on the NE coast.  Photo by Alexander Belousov, 2001 (Institute of Volcanology, Kamchatka, Russia).

Agricultural field on the floor of Marteles Maar are seen in the foreground, with several cinder cones in the background. These are part of a group of Quaternary monogenetic volcanoes in northern Gran Canaria. Eruptions of Holocene age have been restricted to the northern, primarily north-eastern, part of the island, including at Las Isletas, a peninsula on the NE coast.

Photo by Alexander Belousov, 2001 (Institute of Volcanology, Kamchatka, Russia).

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Keywords: maar | crater


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