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The Cueva de Don Justo (or Cave of Don Justo) is one of approximately 70 caves and volcanic galleries on the island of El Hierro in the Canaries. [1]The Cueva de Don Justo is over 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) in length, [1] the cave is located in the El Lajial pahoehoe lava field near the Orchilla lighthouse in the south of El Hierro, it is a wild cave that extends around the Irama mountain (also ...
The cave lies within the Monumento Natural del Malpaís de La Corona, a protected area of the Canary Islands. [1] The cave was created around 3,000 years ago by lava flows erupting from the nearby volcano Monte Corona, flowing across the Malpaís de la Corona toward the sea. As in all lava tubes, the top of a lava stream cooled and developed a ...
A lava cave is any cave formed in volcanic rock, though it typically means caves formed by volcanic processes, which are more properly termed volcanic caves. Sea caves , and other sorts of erosional and crevice caves, may be formed in volcanic rocks, but through non-volcanic processes and usually long after the volcanic rock was emplaced.
Salt caves - caves formed within rock salt by dissolution. [13] Fracture caves - caves formed in the fractures inside a larger rock unit. [14] Glacial caves - caves formed within glacial ice. [15] Lava caves - caves formed in volcanic rock. [16] Lava tubes - primary caves formed as lava conduits during volcanic eruptions. [17]
The word 'malpaís' in Spanish translates to "badland," and this describes the area as being extremely rough and difficult to traverse and unusable for crops.Although a malpaís is often another word for the badlands that form by erosion of sedimentary rocks in the same environment, a malpaís is often associated with such types of lava plain terrain as found in a volcanic field.
Grotta del Gelo ("Cave of Frost") is a volcanic cave of Mount Etna which is known for the presence of a large amount of ice. The cave formed in 1614–1624 during a large eruption of the volcano, inside one of the lava flows produced during that eruption. Within the two subsequent decades, ice grew and accumulated in the cave.
The name El Malpais is from the Spanish term Malpaís, meaning badlands, due to the extremely barren and dramatic volcanic field that covers much of the park's area. It is on the Trails of the Ancients Byway, one of the designated New Mexico Scenic Byways. [4] There are many geologic features, including lava tubes and ice caves.
The Pali-Aike National Park is a park located in the Magallanes Region of Patagonia in Chile. Pali-Aike is a Tehuelche name that means Desolate Place.Created in 1970, it covers an area of 5,030 hectares (12,429 acres) [1] and includes part of the Pali-Aike Volcanic Field.