Los campos volcánicos basálticos monogénicos de la Isla de Tenerife (Canarias, España)

Abstract

For the first time, the different basaltic volcanic fields of the island of Tenerife have been delimited. To do so, different criteria have been taken into consideration: topographic, geological, genetic, structural and morfological. This way a total of five different volcanic fields have been identified (Teno, Pedro Gil, Bilma-Abeque, Teide and Valle San Lorenzo-Las Galletas) all of them with different, and even contrasted, number of volcanic cones, densities and spatial organization, which, in many ways, match with each one of the great complex volcanic morphostructures of the island: the old volcanic massifs, the volcanic rifts and the Teide- Cañadas volcanic complex.