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Late Cretaceous Samail Ophiolite

Mantle section of the Samail Ophiolite with white granitic dikes (Wadi Fizh). Brown to purple Quaternary wadi sediments in the foreground. View to the NNW.

Lower Pillow Lavas of Troodos Ophiolite

The Akaki (Maroullena) River canyon consists of volcanic and intrusive rocks that were formed in the depths of the ancient Neotethys ocean in Upper Cretaceous.

The ultrahigh-pressure unit of the Dora-Maira Massif

The ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic Brossasco-Isasca Unit (middle and foreground) overlain by lower-grade units of the southern Dora-Maira Massif (background). View towards SW and Brossasco, Varaita valley.

Deccan Traps

Deccan Traps panorama looking east from Kate’s Point, Mahabaleshwar. The peaks rise ~1400 meters above sea level and ~600 meters above the Krishna river valley.

Muriwai megapillow lava flows

Part of the larger megapillow lava flow at Muriwai showing huge fans and rosettes of cooling columns formed as several internal feeder tubes solidified.

The Pleistocene Al Wahbah dry maar crater

View of Al Wahbah maar cut deeply into the Neoproterozoic basement and pre-existing Pleistocene scoria cones and lava flows.

El Laco iron lavas

Circular segment with a diameter of 0.75 kilometer corresponding to an emission dyke of magnetitite lava from Laco Norte, which reaches 0.8 kilometers in length and a variable width between 20 and 80 meters. It has a concave curved shape towards the north and is surrounded by hydrothermally altered andesites. View towards the east (by José Antonio Naranjo).

Ngorongoro Crater

Ngorongoro Crater panoramic view.

Ruapehu Volcano

Ruapehu Volcano and edifice looking to the west with the 1996 eruption, plume and ash fall (Photo, L Homer, 1996). Image GNS Science.

Parícutin Volcano

View of the Parícutin cinder cone and surrounding ash deposits.
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