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Dome (Volcanic)

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Definition

Round-shaped elevations consisting of volcanic material (Fink and Anderson 2000).

Category

A type of volcano

Description

In volcanology, “geomorphological result of congelation of accumulated silicic melt of high viscosity” (Ágústsdóttir et al. 2010).

Subtypes of Volcanic Domes

  1. (1)

    Mare dome (Moon)

  2. (2)

    Nonmare dome (Moon)

  3. (3)

    Steep-sided dome (Io)

  4. (4)

    Steep-sided dome (Venus)

  5. (5)

    Modified dome (Venus)

  6. (6)

    Magmatic intrusion structure: Moon

  7. (7)

    Volcanic domes on the floors of some lunar craters (prominent example, Capuanus), morphologically similar to mare domes (Lena et al. 2013)

  8. (8)

    Central dome crater

  9. (9)

    Coulée

  10. (10)

    Tholus (Mars) (domical volcano)

Morphometry

Lunar mare domestypically display diameters in between about 5 and 25 km, average flank slopes (measured from the dome center to its rim) in between some tenths of a degree and (in rare cases) more than 3°, low heights of some tens of meters to at most a few hundred meters, and edifice volumes in between less than...

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  1. Image Analysis Group, TU Dortmund University, Otto-Hahn-Str. 4, 44227, Dortmund, Germany

    Christian Wöhler

  2. Planetary Science Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    Henrik Hargitai

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Wöhler, C., Hargitai, H. (2014). Dome (Volcanic). In: Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_129-2

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    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9213-9_129-2

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