Geology and Minerals

Apollonivka paleovolcano

Apollonivka paleovolcano — an ancient extinct volcano, located a few hundred meters from the right bank of the Mokra Sura River, north of the village of Apollonivka on the right bank of the Dnipro in Dnipro Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, 40 km (25 mi) southwest of the centre of Dnipro. The Apollonivka paleovolcano is one of the oldest paleovolcanoes on Earth (3.2 billion years). The age of the oldest lava flows discovered on Earth, near the settlement of Inukjuak on the shore of Hudson Bay in Canada, is 3.825 billion years.

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• ▸Bear Creek (Colorado)
• ▸Hialeah, Florida
• ▸Flood basalt

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