Numazawa (volcano) explained

Numazawa
Elevation Ft:2740
Location:Fukushima Prefecture
Map:Japan
Listing:Volcanoes in Japan
Coordinates:38.961°N 140.788°W
Type:Shield volcano
Last Eruption:3,400 BCE

Numazawa is a caldera and lake in Ōnuma District of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. The caldera measures across and the lake that occupies it measures deep. The volcanic caldera was constructed within the older and larger Uwaigusa caldera which is 4.2 to 4.0 million years old.[1] The volcano first erupted 110,000 years before present (BP) produced pyroclastics. At 71,000 BP, the Mukuresawa lava dome formed, and at 45,000 BP, a Plinian eruption occurred. Two additional lava domes developed in 43,000 BP and 20,000 BP. The caldera-forming Plinian eruption eruption occurred at 4,600 BP. A VEI 5 eruption occurred at 3,400 BP.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Yamamoto . Takahiro . A rhyolite to dacite sequence of volcanism directly from the heated lower crust: Late Pleistocene to Holocene Numazawa volcano, NE Japan . Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research . 2007 . 167 . 1-4 . 119–133 . 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2007.05.011.
  2. 283151. Numazawa.