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This is a list of active, dormant and extinct volcanoes in India. Name Elevation Location Last eruption Type meters feet Coordinates State Barren Island: 354: 1161
Volcanoes vary greatly in their level of activity, with individual volcanic systems having an eruption recurrence ranging from several times a year to once in tens of thousands of years. [76] Volcanoes are informally described as erupting, active, dormant, or extinct, but the definitions of these terms are not entirely uniform among ...
An active volcano is a volcano that has erupted during the Holocene (the current geologic epoch that began approximately 11,700 years ago), is currently erupting, or has the potential to erupt in the future. [1] A volcano that is not currently erupting but could erupt in the future is known as a dormant volcano. [1]
Dormant volcanoes — of the current Holocene Epoch. See also: Category: Inactive volcanoes. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 ...
Volcanoes that are not currently active, but may be either dormant or extinct or of otherwise uncertain inactive volcanic status. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Inactive volcanoes . Subcategories
This is a list of active, dormant, and extinct volcanoes located beyond planet Earth. They may be designated mons (mountain), patera (an irregular crater) or tholus (small mountain or hill) in accordance with the International Astronomical Union's rules for planetary nomenclature. Many of them are nameless.
Volcanoes that were active in the Holocene Epoch (approximately 11,700 years ago to the present day), in the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era. Active and dormant volcanoes of the Holocene epoch are in Category: Active volcanoes and Category: Dormant volcanoes .
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