Grille, La

sopka – Shield, Union of the Comoros, Somalian-Antarctic Volcanic Regions

Kde

Union of the Comoros, Somalian-Antarctic Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Shield

Nadmořská výška

1 064 m

Tektonické prostředí

Intraplate / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)

Poloha

-11,486°, 43,350°

La Grille is a basaltic shield volcano at the N end of Grand Comore Island (Ngazidja). Unlike the larger Karthala volcano to the S, it lacks a summit caldera but has an abundance of pyroclastic cones. The cones were erupted along fissures paralleling the irregular N-S summit ridge and from radial fissures that reach as far as the coast. Recent lava flows, some perhaps as young as a few hundred years, have reached the sea from fissures on the lower W, N, and E flanks.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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