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Tuff Ring

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Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms

Definition

Small circular cones with low profile flanks and with wide relatively shallow central crater with a relatively simple map view outline.

Description

In a broad sense, tuff rings commonly refer to any ring-like low-profile small volume volcanic edifices with wide craters where their crater floor is above the syn-eruptive surface.

Tuff ring craters are typically surrounded by pyroclastic beds dip radially away from the crater in low angle (<25° on Earth) and rarely traceable more than a km away from the crater rim (Kereszturi and Németh 2013; Németh 2010a; Vespermann and Schmincke 2000; Wohletz and Sheridan 1983).

Tuff ring crater rim deposits are dominated by dune-bedded, laminar tuff beds that are intercalated with coarser grained tuff brecias and lapilli tuffs in proximal to the vent that beds are laterally discontinuous (Heiken 1971; Kereszturi and Németh 2013; Németh et al. 2012a; Wohletz and Sheridan 1983).

Morphometry

Tuff rings have normally low topographic profiles and...

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  1. Institute of Geophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic

    Petr Brož

  2. Institute of Agriculture and Environment, Volcanic Risk Solutions, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

    Károly Németh

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Brož, P., Németh, K. (2015). Tuff Ring. In: Hargitai, H., Kereszturi, Á. (eds) Encyclopedia of Planetary Landforms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3134-3_403

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