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- A diatreme, sometimes known as a maar-diatreme volcano, is a volcanic pipe ****ociated with a gaseous explosion. When magma rises up through a crack in...
- The Aristifats Diatreme is a diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located about 100 km (62 mi) east of Yellowknife. It is thought to have formed...
- The Mountain Diatreme is a diatreme in the Northwest Territories, Canada, located 190 km (118 mi) southwest of Norman Wells. It has a diameter of 600 m...
- The Blackfoot diatreme is a diatreme in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 60 km (37 mi) northeast of Cranbrook. It is 1,000 m (3,281 ft) in...
- The HP diatreme, also called the HP pipe, is a diatreme in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 50 km (31 mi) northeast...
- loose fragments of volcanic rocks and rocks torn from the walls of the diatreme. The name maar comes from a Moselle Franconian dialect word used for the...
- nepheline syenite plutons; a nearby diatreme (Rutan Hill); and several other nearby and much smaller ****s, sills, and diatremes. The two large nepheline syenite...
- The Cross diatreme is a diatreme in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, located 60 km (37 mi) east of the Rocky Mountain Trench and 8 km (5 mi) northeast...
- The Elwin Bay diatreme, also called the Elwin Bay kimberlite, is a small post-Silurian kimberlite diatreme located approximately 1 km (0.62 mi) south of...
- chamber, torn loose from the walls of an erupting lava conduit or explosive diatreme or picked up along the base of a flowing body of lava on the Earth's surface...