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Tangi volcano

Stratovolcano 1524 m / 5000 ft
Papua New Guinea, -5.67°S / 148.4°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Tangi volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
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Background:

The dissected Tangi stratovolcano, occupying the southern end of New Britain's Cape Gloucester Peninsula, contains a breached summit crater and a single flank cone on the SW flank. The degree of erosional dissection suggests activity ceased during the Pleistocene (Johnson et al. 1971).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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