Papua New Guinea · Caldera
Billy Mitchell
- Type
- Caldera
- Elevation
- 1544m
- Last eruption
- 1580
- Type
- Caldera
- Country
- Papua New Guinea
- Region
- Southwestern Pacific / Bougainville Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 1544m
- Coordinates
- -6.090, 155.225
- Last eruption
- 1580
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Crustal thickness unknown
- Landform
- Caldera
- Major rock type
- Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary
Billy Mitchell, a small pyroclastic shield immediately NE of Bagana volcano, has produced some of the largest Holocene eruptions in Papua New Guinea.
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From Wikipedia
Billy Mitchell is a dormant pyroclastic shield volcano in central Bougainville, just north-east of the Bagana Volcano in Papua New Guinea. It is a small pyroclastic shield truncated by a 2 km wide caldera filled by a crater lake. It is named after Billy Mitchell, a 20th-century United States Army general who is sometimes regarded as the father of the United States Air Force.
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Eruption history
2 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 2
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 1032 (±23 yrs) – 1580
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 6 (1580)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 0
Summary (VEI over time)
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Detailed timeline
- 1580 (±19 yrs)VEI 6Geological estimate1580 – end unknown
- 1032 (±23 yrs)VEI 5Geological estimate1032 – end unknown
Nearby volcanoes
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