Tenerife Geology...
Punta de Teno Cinder Cone (foreground) and top, and basalt lava flows coming down the left
Dark pyroxine and orange olivine crystals can be seen as phenocrysts within the overall ankaramite lava
Mirador de Cherfe
layered instrusion formed by crystals of different sizes settling out from the liquid magma
near vertical dykes
de El Palmar scoria cone which has been heavily quarried
de El Palmar scoria cone close ups showing pummice blocks in the overall scoria deposits
de El Palmar scoria cone close ups showing the overall scoria deposits
Los Gigantes cliffs of up to 800 metres in height
Columnar basalts on the beach at Los Silos
village of San Marcos shows the risk and folly of building close to unstable cliffs
radial columnar jointing
Las Canadas caldera
Lava Flow Las Canadas caldera
Dark Basalt rock Las Canadas caldera
Lava Flows Las Canadas caldera
A dyke that is harder than the rocks that it was intruded into and has been left standing by differential erosion
Chlorite clay gives the green colour Mount Teide
Mount Teide
Pico Viejo volcanic cones
Very recent lava flow covering fertile ground
Geology samples taken here (not by us)
Old huts in front of Mount Teide
Ash Layers weathered
Sulphur deposits near the summit of Mount Teide
near the summit of Mount Teide
Lava flows near the summit of Mount Teide
Lava flows Mount Teide
Volcanic Bomb shwoing defoemed layers beneath
The Montana Negrita "paintbox curves"
