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Sarik-Gajah volcano

pyroclastic cones
Sumatra, Indonesia, 0.08°N / 100.19°E
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5)
Typical eruption style: Explosive
Sarik-Gajah volcano eruptions:
The Sarik volcanic andesitic/basaltic center consists of two young cones with vegetated, but uneroded surfaces.

Background:

The andesitic-dacitic Gajah center, 10 km to the SW, consists of a single cone with a rubbly lava flow. Both centers were considered to be of Pleistocene or Holocene age (Rock et al., 1983).

Source: Smithsonian GVP