Traitor's Head

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Traitor's Head

Tipo: Stratovulcano
Altitudine: 817 m
Ultima eruzione: 1881

The peninsula at the top of this Space Shuttle image of Erromango Island (N is approximately to the left) is the Traitor's Head Peninsula. Three Holocene cones at Traitor's Head are the youngest on the 50-km-long island. The volcanoes initially formed an offshore island that later joined the mainland through uplift. The only documented activity at Erromango was a submarine vent that erupted in 1881. · Foto: NASA Space Shuttle image STS68-220-4, 1994 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

Tipo: Stratovulcano
Paese: Vanuatu
Regione: Pacifico sud-occidentale / Vanuatu Volcanic Arc
Altitudine: 817 m
Coordinate: -18.754, 169.238
Ultima eruzione: 1881
Contesto tettonico: Zona di subduzione / Crosta intermedia (15-25 km)
Forma vulcanica: Composito
Roccia principale: Basalto / Picrobasalto

Sintesi geologica

Originale in inglese

The Traitor's Head peninsula north of Cook Bay on eastern Erromango Island is comprised of three Holocene volcanic cones that are the youngest on the 50-km-long island.

Estratto dal Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Leggi la sintesi completa sul GVP →