Methana

sopka – Lava dome(s), Greece, European Volcanic Regions

Kde

Greece, European Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Lava dome(s)

Nadmořská výška

380 m

Tektonické prostředí

Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poslední známá erupce

258 př. n. l.

Poloha

37,619°, 23,333°

Methana volcano consists of a basaltic andesite to rhyodacitic lava dome complex forming the Methana Peninsula in the Sarronian Gulf on the NE side of Peloponnesus. Potassium-Argon ages for the older part of the complex range from 900,000 to 550,000 years, although activity may have begun during the late Pliocene. A younger phase of activity took place from about 380,000-290,000 years ago, forming a series of lava domes and flows. The youngest dome, Kameno Vouno, on the NW side of the peninsula, was formed in the 3rd century BCE and produced a lava flow that traveled 500 m beyond the coastline. Hot springs are found at several locations along the coast of the peninsula.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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