Sentences with phrase «volcanic region known»

New research points the finger squarely at a huge volcanic region known as the Siberian Traps — but not in the way previously expected.

Buchanan Lake, located in the Canadian High Arctic, once formed part of the ancient continent of Pangea downwind from the volcanic region known today as the Siberian Traps.

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The strange hummocky texture of the mountain flanks may represent volcanic flows of some sort that have travelled down from the summit region and onto the plains beyond, but why they are hummocky, and what they are made of, we don't yet know.»

The Picos Region extends from the shadow of the ancient volcano of the Água de Pau Massif (known locally for the lake that rests within its volcanic crater: Lagoa do Fogo) until the area around the Sete Cidades caldera.