By ExploreNow Editor, on May 6th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Historical
Last Known Eruption: 2010 (continuing)
Summit Elevation: 851 m 2,792 feet
Latitude: 10.38°S 10°23’0″S
Longitude: 165.80°E 165°48’0″E
The small 3.5-km-wide island of Tinakula is the exposed summit of a massive stratovolcano that rises 3-4 km from the sea floor at the NW end of the Santa Cruz islands. Tinakula resembles Stromboli volcano in containing a breached summit crater that extends from the 851-m-high summit to below sea level. Landslides enlarged this scarp in 1965, creating an embayment on the NW coast. The satellitic cone of Mendana is located on the SE side. The dominantly andesitic Tinakula volcano has frequently been observed in eruption since the era of Spanish exploration began in 1595. In about 1840, an explosive eruption apparently produced pyroclastic flows that swept all sides of the island, killing its inhabitants. Frequent historical eruptions have originated from a cone constructed within the large breached crater. These have left the upper flanks of the volcano and the steep apron of lava flows and volcaniclastic debris within the breach unvegetated.
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Originally posted 2010-08-02 04:23:55.
By ExploreNow Editor, on May 6th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Submarine volcano
Volcano Status: Fumarolic
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: 600 m 1,968 feet
Latitude: 36.321°S 36°19’15″S
Longitude: 178.028°E 178°1’42″E
Tangaroa submarine volcano in the southern Kermadec arc rises to within 600 m of the sea surface. The volcano is elongated in a NW-SE direction and contains smaller cones on its SE to eastern flanks. A larger edifice lies further to the SE. Tangaroa lies between Clark and Rumble V submarine volcanoes near the southern end of the Kermadec arc and is one of more than a half dozen volcanoes in this part of the arc showing evidence for active hydrothermal vent fields.
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Originally posted 2010-09-13 12:59:12.
By ExploreNow Editor, on April 23rd, 2012%
Volcano Type: Stratovolcano
Volcano Status: Historical
Last Known Eruption: 2007
Summit Elevation: 1413 m 4,636 feet
Latitude: 16.507°S 16°30’24″S
Longitude: 168.346°E 168°20’45″E
The small 7-km-wide conical island of Lopevi, known locally as Vanei Vollohulu, is one of Vanuatu’s most active volcanoes. A small summit crater containing a cinder cone is breached to the NW and tops an older cone that is rimmed by the remnant of a larger crater. The basaltic-to-andesitic volcano has been active during historical time at both summit and flank vents, primarily along a NW-SE-trending fissure that cuts across the island, producing moderate explosive eruptions and lava flows that reached the coast. Historical eruptions at the 1413-m-high volcano date back to the mid-19th century. The island was evacuated following major eruptions in 1939 and 1960. The latter eruption, from a NW-flank fissure vent, produced a pyroclastic flow that swept to the sea and a lava flow that formed a new peninsula on the western coast.
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Originally posted 2010-08-19 04:24:47.
By ExploreNow Editor, on April 10th, 2012%
Volcano Type: Cinder cones
Volcano Status: Holocene?
Last Known Eruption: Unknown
Summit Elevation: 397 m 1,302 feet
Latitude: 35.75°S * 35°45’0″S
Longitude: 174.27°E 174°16’0″E
 Fishing in Whangarei The Whangarei volcanic field, named after the adjacent Whangarei Harbor, consists of Quaternary basaltic scoria cones and lava flows. The field lies in the central part of the Northland Peninsula, at the southernmost end of the Northland Intraplate Province. In addition to the younger dominantly basaltic rocks, Miocene dacitic lava domes and rhyolitic breccias are also present at Whangarei. Quaternary volcanics form a group of large cones SE of Whangarei, a NE-aligned group of scoria cones north of the city, and a group of lava flows east of the city along a major fault. The youngest basalts were mapped as Holocene (Kear and Thompson, 1964), although the age of the field is not well known and there are some indications that the latest eruption may have been during the late Pleistocene, about 30,000 years ago (Latter 1994, pers. comm.).
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Originally posted 2010-09-03 12:11:36.
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