**5. Conclusions**

Small, short-lived and dispersed effusive monogenetic volcanoes are common in different tectonic settings. They can be mafic but also intermediate to silicic in composition and grouped in field arrangements with their explosive counterparts. The volcanoes are common in convergent plate margins like the Andean arc, but also in orogenic regions like Anatolia or intracontinental settings like Arabia or Sudan. Crustal stagnation is common and eventually ready to act as a "source of melt" in small volume and distinct release; this leads to magmatic plumbing systems related to sort of extensional tectonic, small-scale, regimes acting as "windows" for melt releasing, even in compressional regional settings.

In the monogenetic mafic systems, the chemical signatures most likely reflect the source processes (i.e. magma generation, source depth, melting rate, among others), however, in effusive, commonly silicic systems, these primary features are overprinted by the shallow storage and melt segregation signatures. This makes somehow more complex the understanding of the magma evolution. This adds to the fact that the recognition of such silicic effusive monogenetic volcanic systems in the geological record is not easy and requires some petrologic work and the understanding of the overall stress-field.

Finally, we emphasise that effusive monogenetic systems as a conceptual framework could work in volcanic fields overwhelmingly effusive, with a huge volume of effusive products or even classified as large igneous provinces.

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1 Departamento de Ciencias Geológicas - Department of Geological Sciences, Instituto de Investigaciones en Estratigrafía (IIES), Universidad de Caldas,

Support from *Universidad de Caldas* to run a volcanology field course over four years that allowed to expand a greater collaboration between research students and researchers as well as to create an international expansion of collaborative works

2 School of Agriculture and Environment, Massey University, Palmerston North,

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Hugo Murcia1

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*Effusive Monogenetic Volcanism*

**Acknowledgements**

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.94387*

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