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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Spain. Canary Islands. Teneguía was the source of the last volcanic eruption in 1971 on Spanish soil until 2021.
The Santa Margarida Volcano (Catalan: Volcà de Santa Margarida) is an extinct volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. The volcano has a perimeter of 2 kilometers and a height of 682 meters and is part of the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park. The hermitage of Santa Margarida, after which the volcano was named, is inside ...
Volcà del Montsacopa is an extinct volcano in the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Park, situated in Olot, Catalunya, Spain. The volcano has been extinct for about 100,000 years. On top of the crater is the hermitage of Sant Francesc, built in the 17th century. Crater of the Montsacopa volcano in Olot
Name Location Elevation (m) Coordinates Last eruption Notes Askja: Iceland: 1,516 m (4,974 ft) 1961 [1]Eldfell: Iceland: 200 m (660 ft) 1973 [2]Krafla: Iceland: 800 m (2,600 ft)
Starting from the 1960s, the northeastern flank of the volcano was quarried for lapilli gravel. [7] The extraction of material from the volcano cone and the degradation of the volcanoes of the Garrotxa Volcanic Field sparked a series of protests in the 1970s to protect the volcanic field, a campaign that came to be known as Save the Volcanoes (Catalan: Salvem els Volcans). [8]
There are around 200 volcanoes in Texas that have been extinct for millions of years, making them unlikely to erupt again, because the volcano no longer has a magma supply. It could however be ...
Teide's base is situated in Las Cañadas crater (the remains of an older, eroded, extinct volcano) at a height of around 2,190 m (7,190 ft) above sea level. Teide is an active volcano: its most recent eruption occurred in late 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the northwestern Santiago rift. [11]
The Campo de Calatrava volcanic field is a volcanic field in Spain. The volcanic field is in the centre of the province of Ciudad Real , in a region known as Campo de Calatrava . The volcanic field has an area of more than 5000 km 2 and more than 300 individual structures and contains pyroclastic cones , lava domes and maars .