Mere Lava Volcano
Updated: Apr 19, 2024 02:32 GMT -
Stratovolcano 1028 m / 3,373 ft
Vanuatu, -14.45°S / 168.05°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
Vanuatu, -14.45°S / 168.05°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5)
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Mere Lava volcano eruptions: unknown, no recent eruptions
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Background
The small 4-km-wide symmetrical island of basaltic Mera Lava in the southern Banks Islands contains a well-preserved summit crater and an east-west line of young cinder cones cutting across the NE flank. Several small cinder cones occupy the triangular summit crater of 1028-m-high Star Peak, the high point of the island. The low degree of dissection indicates that Mera Lava was in eruption during the Holocene (Mallick and Ash, 1975). Mere Lava was reported to have been smoking when it was first seen by the explorer Queiros in 1606.---
Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Mere Lava Volcano Photos
An ephemeral vent opens the lava tube through which the lava flows over the first few hundred meters from its effusive vent at the base of the SE crater. (Photo: Emanuela...