Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Anthropology
Last Known Eruption: 442 BC
Summit Elevation: 1518 m   4,980 feet
Latitude: 20.92°N   20°55’0″N
Longitude: 95.25°E   95°15’0″E

Mount Popa, in central Burma (Myanmar), is a large, steep-sided composite cone that rises 1150 m above a surrounding lava plateau to a height of 1518 m. The main edifice consists of overlapping basaltic and basaltic-andesite lava flows, pyroclastic deposits, and scoriaceous material originating from strombolian eruptions that may have dominated later stages of the volcano’s growth.

Mount Popa from Kyaukpadaung

Mount Popa contains a 1.6-km-wide, 850-m-deep horseshoe-shaped caldera that is widely breached to the NW and formed as a result of slope failure. A 3 cu km debris-avalanche deposit covers an area of 27 sq km north of the breach. Local legends describe an eruption in 442 BC.

Mount Popa (Yewco Kootnikoff)

Mount Popa

View of the town from the top of Mount Popa (Oscar Sanderson)

Nat's Temple on Mount Popa

Originally posted 2010-10-04 15:18:37.