Moorea

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

Kde

France, Southern Pacific Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Shield

Nadmořská výška

1 138 m

Poloha

-17,552°, -149,823°

Like several other central Pacific island chains, the Society Islands are progressively younger to the SE. Moorea, the NW-most of the Society Islands with Pleistocene volcanism, is a dissected shield volcano whose caldera is open to the north and surrounded by sharp-topped peaks. Potassium-Argon dates for the island range from 1.64-1.49 million years ago (Duncan and Mcdougall 1976).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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