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Mountain Metres Feet Location and Notes Ojos del Salado: 6,893 22,615: Argentina/Chile – highest dormant volcano on Earth: Monte Pissis: 6,793 22,287: Argentina Nevado Tres Cruces
Twelve volcanoes in the arc are over 10,000 feet (3,000 m) in elevation, and the two highest, Mount Rainier and Mount Shasta, exceed 14,000 feet (4,300 m). By volume, the two largest Cascade Volcanoes are the broad shields of Medicine Lake Volcano and Newberry Volcano, which are about 145 and 108 cubic miles (600 and 450 km 3) respectively.
Diagram of the Yellowstone Caldera. The Lava Creek eruption of the Yellowstone Caldera, which occurred 640,000 years ago, [112] ejected approximately 1,000 cubic kilometres (240 cu mi) of rock, dust and volcanic ash into the atmosphere. It was Yellowstone's third and most recent caldera-forming eruption.
Mount St. Helens. Washington Elevation: 8,363 feet Mount St. Helens surprised locals and the world alike when it erupted on May 18, 1980, as many thought the volcano was extinct.A plume of ash and ...
Name Elevation Location Last eruption meters feet Coordinates; Malumalu: Last 8,000 years Ta‘u-931: 3054: 30,000 years ago [15]: Ofu-Olosega: 639: 2096: 1866 unnamed submarine cone eruption
List of volcanoes in Ethiopia; List of volcanoes in Kenya; List of volcanoes in Libya; List of volcanoes in Madagascar; List of volcanoes of Mauritius; In Nigeria all the volcanoes are in the Biu Plateau; List of volcanoes in Réunion; List of volcanoes in Rwanda; São Tomé and Príncipe has only one volcano, Pico de São Tomé; List of ...
Due to this, Aconcagua is not considered to be a volcano on its own, at least not as a member of Volcanic Seven Summits. Topographic maps of the Argentina and Chile border region which contains the highest peaks suffer from poor accuracy, with elevation errors exceeding 100 metres (330 ft) in many cases.
Shishaldin Volcano, or Mount Shishaldin (/ ʃ ɪ ˈ ʃ æ l d ən /), is one of six active volcanoes on Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska. [1] It is the highest mountain peak of the Aleutian Islands, rising to a height of 9,373 ft (2,857 m) above sea level.