Maars

Connected Sites: 4

A maar is a broad, low-relief volcanic crater that is caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption, which is an explosion caused by groundwater coming into contact with hot lava or magma. A maar characteristically fills with water to form a relatively shallow crater lake. (wiki)

Connected Sites

  • Messel Pit
    Messel Pit
    Germany
    Inscribed: 1995
    2.22
    180
    9
    West Eifel Volcanic Field
  • Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Wet Tropics of Queensland
    Australia
    Inscribed: 1988
    3.50
    140
    8
    Lake Euramoo
  • El Pinacate
    El Pinacate
    Mexico
    Inscribed: 2013
    3.08
    16
    5
    "The most visually striking feature is the concentration of a total of 10 enormous, deep and almost perfectly circular Maar (steam blast) craters, believed to originate from a combination of eruptions and collapses." (OUV)
  • Volcanoes of Kamchatka
    Volcanoes of Kamchatka
    Russia
    Inscribed: 1996
    4.31
    15
    2
    Kinenin Lake