Tomuro volcano

Lava dome(s) 548 m / 1798 ft
Honshu, Japan, 36.53°N / 136.75°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Tomuro volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

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The Tomuro lava-dome complex contains four domes that were active from about 0.4-0.3 million years (Nakano et al., 2001-).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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