Topografische Karte Maui

Name: Topografische Karte Maui, Höhe, Relief.

Ort: Maui, Maui County, Hawaii, United States (20.57443 -156.69726 21.03156 -155.97909)

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 232 m

Minimale Höhe: -4 m

Maximale Höhe: 3.044 m

Maui's diverse landscapes are the result of a unique combination of geology, topography, and climate. Each volcanic cone in the chain of the Hawaiian Islands is built of dark, iron-rich/quartz-poor rocks, which poured out of thousands of vents as highly fluid lava throughout millions of years. Several of the volcanoes were close enough to each other that lava flows on their flanks overlapped one another, merging into a single island. Maui is such a "volcanic doublet," formed from two shield volcanoes that overlapped one another to form an isthmus between them.

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