Mago Volcano
Updated: May 16, 2024 05:42 GMT -
Pyroclastic cone(s) unknown
Fiji, -17.45°S / -179.15°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Fiji, -17.45°S / -179.15°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Mago volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
A K-Ar date of about 0.3 million years was obtained from a basaltic rock from Mago Island on the Lau Ridge (Cole et al., 1990). Three scoria cones and short lava flows, some of which contain peridotite xenoliths, are located on the island.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information