Destruction of emergent tuff cones in Faial Island, Azores: influence of tectonics and marine erosion

• Main Authors: Pedrazzi, Dario, Zanon, V., Pimentel, A., Tempera, F.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: tuff cone; hydrovolcanism; marine geology; basaltic magmatism; Cierva; Mid-Atlantic Ridge; Searle; Kamchatka; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/232506

8th International MAAR CONFERENCE, Kamchatka, 24-30 August 2020 The island of Faial is the westernmost of the central islands of the Azores archipelago (North Atlantic Ocean), and is located east of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. The Azores are in a unique geodynamic setting at the triple junction of the North-American, Eurasian and Nubia lithospheric plates (Searle, 1980; Madeira and Ribeiro, 1990; Vogt and Jung, 2004) (Fig. 1a) D.P. is grateful for his Juan de la Cierva (IJCI-2016-30482) contract.