Mere Lava

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Vanuatu, Southwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Kde

Vanuatu, Southwestern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

1 003 m

Poloha

-14,459°, 168,040°

The small 5-km-diameter island of Mere Lava (also known as Star Peak) in the southern Banks Islands has a well-preserved summit crater containing a small cinder cone. Eruptive products are olivine basalt lavas and related tephra, and nine small craters are aligned down and across the NE flank above a small coastal plain extending into the ocean (Mallick and Ash, 1975). Although Mallick and Ash (1975) considered the volcano to be "very young", they noted that there were no records or legends of activity. Although some writers claim that the Spanish explorer Queiros reported the volcano to be "smoking" in 1606, a reading of the Markham (1904) translation seems to describe human, not volcanic, activity.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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