Volcanic plateau up by foundering of the Earth's crust to form the present ocean basin. The Earth features numerous subaerial and submarine volcanic plateaus such as the Columbia River Plateau (subaerial) and the vast Ontong Java Plateau (submarine). Pyroclastic plateaus are produced by massive pyroclastic flows and they are underlain by pyroclastic rocks: agglomerates, tephra, volcanic ashes cemented into tuffs, mafic or felsic. Examples include Shirasu-Daichi which covers almost all of Southern Kyūshū, Japan and the North Island Volcanic Plateau in New Zealand. Volcanic plateau A volcanic plateau is a plateau produced by volcanic activity. There are two main types: lava plateaus
Eoarchean geology highly deformed biotite-hornblende tonalitic to granitic orthogneiss. Subordinate mafic amphibolitic and chloritic elliptical enclaves and inclusions are observed in felsic gneisses.Although the rocks are highly deformed and could not reflect the original field relation between rock units, the chemical composition of the rocks showcases how Eoarchean greenstone-TTG be like. Chemical composition in the mafic inclusion suggests the acasta area was possibly a supra-subduction setting. Dominant felsic rocks are composed of highly deformed tonalitic, granodioritic and granitic gneisses. Inclusion of as early as 4.2 billion years old zircon core are observed in the gneisses. Mafic rocks, i.e. subordinate amphibolite and ultra