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A lava field, also called a lava plain or lava bed, is a large expanse of nearly flat-lying lava flows. Such features are generally composed of highly fluid basalt lava, and can extend for tens or even hundreds of miles across the underlying terrain. The extent of large lava fields is most readily grasped from the air or in satellite photos, where their typically dark, nearly black color contrasts sharply with the rest of the landscape. According to the US Geological Survey, monogenetic volcanic fields are collections of cinder cones, and/or Maar vents and associated lava flows and pyroclastic deposits. Sometimes a stratovolcano〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Volcanic Fields )〕 is at the center of the field, as at the San Francisco Volcanic Field in Arizona. Monogenetic volcano fields have systematic growth patterns that suggest they represent single magmatic systems in the same way that stratovolcanoes do, but monogenetic volcanoes grow laterally rather than vertically (Wood and Shoan, 1984). Detailed mapping indicates that some cinder cones in monogenetic fields (e.g., Cima, California, and Timber Mountain Volcanic Field, Nevada) may have had multiple eruptions separated by tens to hundreds of thousands of years (Wells, et al., 1989). Thus, some monogenetic cones may actually be polygenetic. This possibility differs from observations of historic eruptions (Wood, 1979), and is physically difficult to understand because cinder cone conduits are narrow and must solidify within a few years of eruption. Nonetheless, such multiple eruptions appear to have happened at least twice: Other cinder cones need to be closely reexamined.〔 Some of the most ancient geological remnants of basaltic plains lie in Canada's Precambrian Shield. Eruption of plateau lavas near the Coppermine River southwest of Coronation Gulf in the Arctic, built an extensive plateau about 1200 million years ago with an area of about , representing a volume of lavas of at least . The lavas are thought to have originated from a mantle plume center called the Mackenzie hotspot. ==Samples of lava field== *Boring Lava Field (United States)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Boring Lava Field )〕 *Harrat Rahat, which threatened the city of Medina in the 13th century (Saudi Arabia)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harrat Rahat )〕 *Hell's Half Acre Lava Field (Idaho, (States ))〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hell_s_Half_Acre_Lava_Trail )〕 *Reykjanes, Iceland (peninsula is mainly a barren waste of lava fields)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Reykjanes Peninsula )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lava field」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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