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An extinct volcano constitutes two-thirds of Aegina. The northern and western sides consist of stony but fertile plains , which are well cultivated and produce luxuriant crops of grain, with some cotton, vines , almonds , olives and figs , [ 4 ] but the most characteristic crop of Aegina today (2000s) is pistachio .
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The volcano of Methana is located to the southwest along with Kromyonia at the Isthmus of Corinth, Aegina and Poros. Methana is also the youngest most active volcano center and forms the northwestern end of the cycladic arch of active volcanoes that includes Milos island, Santorini island and Nisyros island.
Stefanos, the largest crater of the volcano. Landscape. The island has a 3-to-4-kilometre (1.9 to 2.5 mi) wide caldera, and was formed within the past 150,000 years, with three separate eruptive stages, ranging from explosive and effusive andesitic eruptions to explosive and effusive dacitic and rhyolitic activity. [4]
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Aegina (3 C, 7 P) R. Rhön Mountains (2 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Extinct volcanoes of Europe" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total.
The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc (chain of volcanoes) in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics. The prior cause was the subduction of the African plate beneath the Eurasian plate, raising the Aegean arc across what is now the North Aegean Sea. It was not yet the sea, nor an arc, or at least not the one it is today, nor ...
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