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Trou aux Cerfs (also known as Murr's Volcano) is a dormant, crater lake, cinder cone volcano with a well-defined cone and crater. It is 605 m (1,985 ft) high and located in Curepipe , Mauritius . The crater has been alternately described as 300 [ 1 ] and 350 meters in diameter, [ 2 ] and is 80 meters deep.
The geology of Mauritius and Rodrigues is comparatively recent. The oldest rocks on Mauritius are only 10 million years old and 1.54 million years old on Rodrigues Island. The mafic basalts of the two islands formed in relation to the hotspot that generated the Deccan Traps and coral reefs built on the volcanoes forming non-volcanic sediments. [1]
Volcanoes of Mauritius. Pages in category "Volcanoes of Mauritius" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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Two long-dormant “supervolcanoes” on two separate continents appear to be stirring to life. Well, maybe. In recent months, more than a thousand minor earthquakes have rattled the area around ...
The island of Réunion formed from two volcanoes, the active Piton de la Fournaise on the southern end of the island and Piton des Neiges, which is slightly taller and dormant. [1] The Reunion hotspot that formed the Deccan Traps also produced the Chagos-Laccadive Ridge and the Mascarene Plateau and plays a role in the geology of Mauritius and ...
Klyuchy is located about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the volcano and Ust-Kamchatsk 50 kilometers (30 miles) away. The 4,650-meter (15,255-foot) stratovolcano has been active in recent years and ...
A once long-dormant volcano in Iceland is erupting again and impacting activity in a populated region nearby. The volcano, on the Reykjanes peninsula in southwestern Iceland, began erupting at ...