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La Grille

Grille, La

Vulcano a scudo · Union of the Comoros · 1064 m

Cones can be seen here on the flanks of La Grille shield volcano at the N end of Grand Comore Island (also known as Ngazidja). It is located N of Karthala volcano, and the scoria cones reach up to 800 m in height. 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.
Cones can be seen here on the flanks of La Grille shield volcano at the N end of Grand Comore Island (also known as Ngazidja). It is located N of Karthala volcano, and the scoria cones reach up to 800 m in height. 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. · Foto: Copyrighted photo by Stephen and Donna O'Meara, 2002. · Wikimedia Commons
Tipo
Vulcano a scudo
Paese
Union of the Comoros
Regione
Somalian-Antarctic Volcanic Regions / Madagascar-Comoros Volcanic Province
Altitudine
1064 m
Coordinate
-11.486, 43.350
Ultima eruzione
Sconosciuto
Contesto tettonico
Intraplate / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
Forma vulcanica
Shield
Roccia principale
Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
Sintesi geologica

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.

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Riassunto in inglese

La Grille is a volcano in the Comoros archipelago on the island of Grande Comore.

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