List of lava domes

Lava domes are common features on volcanoes around the world. Lava domes are volcanoes to exist on plate margins as well as in intra-arc hotspots, and on heights above 6000 m and in the sea floor.[1] Individual lava domes and volcanoes featuring lava domes are listed below.

Africa

Ethiopia

the mount Ammar

Asia

Afghanistan

Dome or volcano nameVolcanic areaCompositionLast dome eruption
or growth episode
Dacht-i-Navar GroupGhanzi region
Vakak GroupGhanzi region

Armenia

Indonesia

Japan

Mount Tarumae, Japan
Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group, Japan

Philippines

Russia

Ridge of lava domes of Diky Greben complex, Russia

Taiwan

Turkey

Europe

France

Puy-de-Dôme, France

Greece

Iceland

Italy

United Kingdom

North America

Canada

Atwell Peak, British Columbia
Dome or volcano nameVolcanic areaCompositionLast dome eruption
or growth episode
Atwell PeakGaribaldi Volcanic BeltRhyolitePleistocene
Cartoona PeakNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic ProvinceMiocene
Mount CayleyGaribaldi Volcanic BeltDacite200,000 years ago
Ember RidgeGaribaldi Volcanic BeltAndesitePleistocene-Holocene
Exile HillNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic ProvinceTrachytePliocene
Glacier DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic ProvincePleistocene
Glacier PikesGaribaldi Volcanic BeltPleistocene
Heart PeaksNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic ProvinceRhyoliteUnknown
IGC CentreNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic ProvinceMiocene
Mount Meager massifGaribaldi Volcanic BeltDacite2,350 years ago
Mount McNeil-RhyoliteTertiary
Nanook DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene
Pharaoh DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene
Sezill VolcanoNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene
Silverthrone MountainGaribaldi Volcanic Belt-Holocene
Spectrum DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pliocene
Sphinx DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene
Sturgeon Lake CalderaWabigoon greenstone belt-Neoarchean
Tadeda PeakNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Miocene
The PyramidNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene
Triangle DomeNorthern Cordilleran Volcanic Province-Pleistocene

Grenada

Mexico

United States

Black Butte, California
Novarupta, Alaska
Cinnamon Butte, Oregon
Mount Elden, Arizona

South America

Argentina

Dome or volcano nameVolcanic areaCompositionLast dome eruption
or growth episode
TipasCentral Volcanic Zone
TroconSouthern Volcanic ZoneAndesite to Dacite

Bolivia

Chile

Aerial view of the rhyolitic lava dome of Volcán Chaitén in Chile (2009)
Dome or volcano nameVolcanic areaCompositionLast dome eruption
or growth episode
Cerros de SaltarCentral Volcanic ZoneDacitePliocene
ChaiténSouthern Volcanic ZoneRhyolite2010
Cerro ChaoCentral Volcanic ZoneDaciteQuaternary
Cerro PorquesaCentral Volcanic ZoneRhyodacitePliocene/Pleistocene
ChillahuitaCentral Volcanic Zone
Corona Dome ComplexCentral Volcanic ZoneAndesiteQuaternary
Cordón CaulleSouthern Volcanic ZoneRhyodacite to RhyoliteHolocene
FueguinoAustral Volcanic ZoneHolocene
LascarCentral Volcanic ZoneDacite2007
Volcán NuevoSouthern Volcanic ZoneDacite1986
SollipulliSouthern Volcanic ZoneAndesite to Dacite
TaapacaCentral Volcanic ZoneHolocene

Oceania

New Zealand

Obsidian veins at Ben Lomond, New Zealand

Australia

Extraterrestrial lava domes

Mons Rümker from Apollo 15

See also

References

  1. ↑ Yoshihiko Goto and Nobutaka Tsuchiya. Morphology and growth style of a Miocene submarine dacite lava dome at Atsumi, northeast Japan. 2004 Elsevier B.V.
  2. ↑ "Tatun Volcanic Group". Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution. 2023-10-11. Retrieved 2023-11-27.
  3. ↑ "Amiata: Synonyms and Subfeatures". Global Volcanism Program. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
  4. ↑ Geology of England and Wales, pp118ff
  5. ↑ Upton, B. G. J. (2015). Volcanoes and the Making of Scotland. Dunedin Academic Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1780465418. Retrieved 14 August 2019.
  6. ↑ Wöhler, C.; Lena, R.; Pau, K. C. (2007). "The Lunar Dome Complex Mons Rümker: Morphometry, Rheology, and Mode of Emplacement" (PDF). Proceedings Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII. Retrieved 10 March 2017.