Abstract
La Palma is the summit of a 6.4 km high oceanic volcano. The island has four well-defined geological units: an uplifted and tilted basal complex, a northern and older gullied Taburiente edifice, a southern volcanically active Cumbre Vieja Ridge, and the Bejenado massif in between the depressions of the Caldera de Taburiente and Cumbre Nueva (Ancochea et al. 1994). These two depressions have been interpreted as the result of a single failure which took place after build up of the older Taburiente vo1cano (2–0.5 Ma), and which was later infilled by the Bejenado volcano and more recently by the Cumbre Nueva volcano (125 ka-present) (Ancochea et al. 1994; Guillou et al. 1997; Carracedo et al. 1999).
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Urgeles, R., Masson, D. G., Canals, M., Watts, A. B., Gee, M. J. R., Le Bas, T. P., & Mitchell, N. C. (2003). Giant Landslides off the Island of La Palma. In European Margin Sediment Dynamics (pp. 297–300). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_50
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