Hualālai Northwest Rift Zone

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Hualālai Northwest Rift Zone is a volcanic rift system on the flanks of Hualālai volcano on Hawaiʻi Island, characterized by aligned vents, fissures, and lava flows that mark one of the volcano’s primary zones of eruptive activity.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf geologic feature
volcanic rift zone
age Holocene
associatedWithHotspot Hawaiian hotspot
compositionDominatedBy basaltic lava
controlsSubsurfaceMagmaPathwaysOf Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
controlsVentDistributionOn Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
eruptionStyle basaltic fissure eruptions
eruptiveProducts pāhoehoe lava flows
spatter ramparts
tephra cones
ʻaʻā lava flows
formsStructuralTrendWith other rift zones of Hualālai volcano
hasAlignedVents yes
hasEruptiveHistory Holocene eruptions
hasFissures yes
hasGeomorphicExpression chains of cinder and spatter cones
linear fissure systems
overlapping lava flow fields
hasLavaFlows yes
hasNameLanguage Hawaiian
hasOrientation northwest
hasVolcanicVents yes
hazardType lava flow hazard
tephra fall hazard
hostVolcanoActivityStatus active volcano
influencesHazardDistributionOn northwest flank of Hualālai volcano
isFeatureOf Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain volcanic province NERFINISHED
isFlankStructureOf Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
isMonitoredBy Hawaiian Volcano Observatory NERFINISHED
U.S. Geological Survey NERFINISHED
isOnFlankOf Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
isPartOfVolcanicSystem Hualālai volcanic system NERFINISHED
isPrimaryEruptiveZoneOf Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
isYoungerThan main shield-building stage of Hualālai volcano
locatedIn State of Hawaiʻi NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
locatedOn Hawaiʻi Island NERFINISHED
partOf Hualālai volcano NERFINISHED
tectonicSetting intraplate hotspot volcano
volcanoTypeOfHost shield volcano

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Hualālai hasVolcanicField Hualālai Northwest Rift Zone