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2w ago
Dabbahu (Boina Boina, Moina) is an active stratovolcano in the northern portion of the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia. Its most recent eruption was in 2005. Dabbahu is the name of the region and the tribe living in the area. Boina in the Afar language means fumarole and refers to the upper part of the volcano ..read more
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3w ago
Volcan San Juan is the northernmost major volcano of the Trans Mexican Volcano Belt (TMVB). It overlooks the city of Tepic, capital of Nayarit state. The volcano has a twin just to the south, Cerro Alto. This portion of the TMVB has a cluster of five stratovolcanoes all located within 60 km. From NW ..read more
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1M ago
Isle de la Possession is the largest of five members of the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean. These islands are a sub-Antarctic archipelago and one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. They are located midway between the southern tip of Madagascar and Antarctica. The islands are uninhabited ..read more
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2M ago
One of the things that pique my interest in looking at individual volcanoes or volcanic fields is the home page of the Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program (GVP). This post initially started as a look into a pair of closely spaced stratovolcanoes in far southern Chile, Maca and Cay. But as you look into these systems ..read more
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2M ago
The Golden Trout Creek volcanic field is a group of basalt cinder cones and lava flows in the Toowa Valley, some 25 km S of Mount Whitney. It is located in the Sierra Nevada east of the Central Valley and west of Death Valley. The closest neighboring volcanic fields are Big Pine to the N ..read more
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3M ago
The Azas Plateau is a large volcanic field located west of the SW tip of Lake Baikal, north of the Mongolian border in central Asia. It is one of multiple intraplate volcanic fields associated with the Lake Baikal rift, one of the largest active continental rifts in the world. The plateau goes by multiple names ..read more
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3M ago
Volcan Telica is one of Nicaragua’s most active volcanoes. It is located along the Central American volcanic front, some 39 km NE from Volcan Momotombo on the NE edge of Lago Nicaragua. The volcano itself is constructed of at least six peaks, with Volcan Santa Clara at the SE end of the group. The largest ..read more
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4M ago
One of the things we do here is try to give an overview of how various volcanic systems work, where they are located, neighboring systems, and what they have done in the past. Most of the real work has been done by the professionals over the years and we capture some of that work, usually ..read more
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4M ago
The Dakataua Caldera is located at the northern tip of the Willaumez (Talasea) Peninsula jutting out from central New Britain, Papua New Guinea (PNG). We covered multiple volcanoes in New Britain in past posts, the most recent of which was Witori. There are also posts on the Rabaul Caldera and activity at Langila in 2019 ..read more
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5M ago
December 2020, a group of scientists suggested that the islands of the Four Mountains (IFM), a volcanic archipelago in the central Aleutians may actually be evidence for a large, previously unrecognized caldera in the Aleutians. There are two groupings of islands. The westernmost includes Amukta, Chagulak, Yunaska. The eastern includes Herbert, Carlisle, Chuginadak, Kagamil and ..read more