Motlav

sopka – Stratovolcano, Vanuatu, Southwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Kde

Vanuatu, Southwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

411 m

Tektonické prostředí

Subduction zone / Intermediate crust (15-25 km)

Poloha

-13,670°, 167,670°

The elongated island of Motlav, also referred to as Mota Lava, is comprised of at least five Pleistocene basaltic stratovolcanoes capped by two well-preserved late-Pleistocene to Holocene pyroclastic cones, Tuntog and Vetnam. Tuntog is a largely pyroclastic composite cone at the SW end of the island with a 500-m-wide summit crater. Vetman, in the center of the island, is a pyroclastic cone truncated by a summit crater that is breached on the southern side. The 411-m high point of Motlav is a remnant of older volcanics along the central ridge of the 12-km-long, NE-SW-trending island.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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