Lava Plateau Research Paper

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A lava plateau is a flat wide surface formed by lava when it blasts out of the ground, and spreads across the land expeditiously. The layers of lava build up over time to form a lava plateau. Lava plateaus can take many lava flows to form, and can take up hundreds of square miles. Lava Plateaus are one of the most massive volcanic landforms. Surprisingly, even impossibly, larger plateaus covered the ground during the Paleogene spreading out over hundreds of thousands of miles. America fits in the plateau 257.46 times!

Lava plateaus are only formed when the lava flows are not explosive. Due to their large, and even colossal size, Lava plateaus can contain lava fields, cinder cones, shield volcanoes and other volcanic landforms, and can even

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