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Nuestra hija de crianza, Brenda, tomó esta foto. Me gusta como salió la bandera.
Brenda, a young woman who lives with us took this photo at Pico Duarte. It is the highest mountain in the D.R. at over 10,000 feet.
Detail, lava flows near coast. Criação Velha, Pico Island, Azores. (WWF ecoregion PA0403)
Superposed and collapsed lava tubes of basaltic flows. The scale of the photo is about one meter across. Most of these tubes originated with single flows some decimeters thick each. Illustrated here is the repeated advance of small low-viscosity flows over and partly through "aa"-type more angular reddish lava fronts.
Pico do Arieiro, at 1,818 m high, is Madeira island's third highest peak. Most days, visitors can stand and look down on the clouds.
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Pico Bontio National Park..world known for it's incredible bio-diversity, scientists from National Geographic and other institutions visit and conduct research here regularly.
An HDR capture of the Pico House, a few blocks from city hall and across the street from Olvera Street and Union Station in downtown Los Angeles, CA, USA. City hall can be seen on the right of the frame.
This version, processed in HDR +/-2 EV in Photomatix and mildly tuned in PSE 9 and utilizing Topaz adjust.
Mount Teide (Spanish: Pico del Teide) is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Its 3,718 metre high summit is the highest point in Spain, the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic, and it is the third highest volcano in the world measured from its base on the ocean floor. It remains active, with its most recent eruption occurring in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the north western Santiago rift. Teide together with its neighbour Pico Viejo and Montaña Blanca form the Central Volcanic Complex of Tenerife. (from wikipedia)
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I'm thinking this is Santa Marina de Valdeon, but my notes are bad. Taken on a hiking/road trip in the Picos de Europa.
Entre los picos de Europa destaca uno en especial, amado y temido a la vez, pero de una maravilla increible.
Pico, Azores
Handmade panoramic picture
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Mount Pico (Portuguese: Montanha do Pico), is a stratovolcano and highest point on the Portuguese island of Pico in the Azores. Further, reaching an altitude of 2,351 metres (7,713 ft) above sea level, it is more than twice the elevation of any other peak in the Azores, and the tallest mountain in Portugal.
History
Historical eruptions of Pico have occurred from vents on its flanks rather than the summit crater. In 1562–64, an eruption on the southeast flank produced lava flows which reached the sea. Another flank eruption in 1718 also produced flows which reached the coast. The most recent eruption occurred in December 1720.
On 29 September 2009 there were reports from local news sources that indicated that a fumarole existing at the pinnacle of the mountain (Piquinho) began emitting volcanic gaes. The region's seismic and volcanological monitoring centre (Portuguese: CIVISA Centro de Informação e Vigilância Sismovulcânica dos Açores) indicated that the phenomenon occurred in the early morning, turning intense and visible in various points throughout the island and from Faial. Although the event resulted from exceptional meteorlogical conditions and was visible in the Central Group, there was no liberation of anomalous volcanic gases and all other parameters fell within norms.
Geology
The landscape of the East Fissural Zone with some escoria cones
The pinnacle of the island and mountain: Pico Piquinho, also known as Pico Pequeno
The pit crater rim of Pico Alto on the summit of PicoMount Pico is part of the Madalena Volcanic Complex, one of three volcanological units that comprise the island of Pico, associated with three historic eruptions in 1562, 1718 and 1720. Current morphology suggests an age dating to the Holocene age, confirmed by radiocarbon dates younger than 6000 years. Structurally, this complex can be subdivided into two other sections: the Pico Volcano and the East Fissural Zone.
Pico is a stratovolcano, with a pit crater on its summit. Pico Alto the round crater about 500 meters (1,600 ft) in diameter and 30 meters deep tops the volcano, with Piquinho (Pico Pequeno) a small volcanic cone rising 70 meters within it to form the true summit. Meanwhile, the East Fissural Zone comprises several alignments of Hawaiian/Strombolian scoria cones and associated lava flows, which overflowed many of the cliffs, cut in older units and originated lava deltas (Portuguese: fajãs).
The tectonic structure is characterized by two fault systems.The main WNW-ESE structures are the dextral faults of Laoga do Capitão and Topo, that merge to the east, forming a narrow shallow graben. To the west, the graben is completely covered by the Pico stratovolcano occurring less than 10,000 years ago, and infilled by lava flows and cones of the Eastern Fissural zone, that includes many of the volcanic alignments and scarps. The second fault zone, running NNW-SSE, are markedly less in number and includes normal left lateral, oblique slip faults responsible for the main volcanic eruptions: the Lomba de Fogo-São João fault (basis of the 1718 eruption)and the Santo António volcanic alignment.
On top of Pico (Piquinho) there is an area of permanent degasification characterized by the emission of water vapour at a temperature of between 50ºC to 75°C. In addition, other vents also exist between 1,500 metres (4,900 ft) and 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) above sea level, as well as diffuse degasification along the graben between the Lagoa do Capitão and Topo faults. There is also a carbon dioxide-rich spring in the locality of Silveira (along the southern coast of Lajes do Pico, formed in the base of Pico.