France · Stratovolcano
Mont Richard-Foy
Cochons, Ile aux
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Elevation
- 775m
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Country
- France
- Region
- Somalian & Antarctic / Crozet Hotspot Volcano Group
- Elevation
- 775m
- Coordinates
- -46.100, 50.230
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Rift zone / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Basalt / Picro-basalt
Geological summary
The 8 x 10 km Ile aux Cochons, at the W end of the Crozet Islands, is a single stratovolcano with a small summit caldera and more than 60 scoria cones. The production of phreatomagmatic breccias interbedded with thin lava flows was followed by block faulting and the eruption of scoria cones and lava flows along four radial fracture systems. Bellair (1964) considered the Morne Rouge cone on the E coast to be younger than a cone on Possession Island estimated to be several hundred years old.
From Wikipedia
Mont Richard-Foy is the highest mountain in the Île aux Cochons, Crozet Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Indian Ocean.
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Eruption history
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No eruption records available.
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