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Paama Island Volcano

Updated: May 21, 2024 22:34 GMT -
Complex 544 m / 1785 ft
Vanuatu, -16.47°S / 168.23°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Paama Island volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than 2.58 million years ago (Pleistocene)

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Background

Williams & Warden (1964) report an eruption of Paama in 1897 (p 54) but Warden (1967) reports extensive erosion has destroyed the original volcanoes on Paama and classifies them as older than the Pliocene-early Pleistocene volcanoes of Emae.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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