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Bruntál volcanic field

volcanic field in the Czech Republic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ134663158 ↗
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The Bruntál volcanic field is a volcanic field in the Nízký Jeseník region of the Czech Republic, named after the town of Bruntál. It consists of several lava flows and cinder cones that formed during the Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs. A potassium–argon date of 0.83 ± 0.12 million years was obtained from the hill Venušina sopka in 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bruntál volcanic field” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.