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Sandal volcano

cinder cone 855 m
Turkey, 38.58°N / 28.55°E
Current status: normal or dormant (1 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: explosive
Sandal volcano eruptions: none in historic times No recent earthquakes
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation
The Sandal volcano belongs to the Kula volcanic area.

Background:

It is part of the most western part of Turkey´s volcanism. There have been alkaline-basanitic-to-phonotephritic eruptions of Strombolian style in the Holocene until +- 10-000-35.000 years before.


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