Sao Vicente (Sao Vicente, Cape Verde)
Sao Vicente island
| Volcano: | Sao Vicente (see Sao Vicente at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | São Vicente island (227 km2) is one of the Barlovento Islands, Cape Verde archipelago, West Africa. Cape Verde is consists of an intra-plate volcanic chain, Cape Verde Rise, the world’s highest intra-plate elevation in the ocean crust and occupies a position on the passive margin of the African plate, coincident with important residual geoid and gravimetric and heat flow anomalies related to the wellcharacterized Cape Verde mantle plume. |
Point of contact for this site:
Samara Dionis, sdionis@iter.es (1Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias (INVOLCAN))
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Sao Vicente_01082008 | 1/8/2008 | Emanuela Bagnato | Sept. 19, 2016 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Dionis Samara M , Nemesio M Pérez, Pedro A Hernández, Gladys Melián, Fátima Rodríguez,Eleazar Padrón, Hirochika Sumino, Jose Barrrancos, Germán D Padilla, Paulo Fernandes,Zuleyka Bandomo, Sónia Silva, Jose M Pereira, Hélio Semedo,Jeremias Cabral, 2015,Diffuse CO2 degassing and volcanic activity at Cape Verde islands, West Africa, Earth, Planets and Space, vol.67, pp. 1-15, DOI: 10.1186/s40623-015-0219-x
