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The volcano formed the northern ridge of the Bandung Basin. The ancient volcano is the predecessor of today's Tangkuban Perahu, Burangrang, and Bukit Tunggul volcanoes. The Sunda volcano was a stratovolcano and is estimated to have reached up to 3,000–4,000 metres (9,850–13,100 ft) above sea level during the Pleistocene age. [1]
The Sunda Arc is a volcanic arc that produced the volcanoes that form the topographic spine of the islands of Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara, Java, the Sunda Strait, and the Lesser Sunda Islands. The Sunda Arc begins at Sumatra and ends at Flores , and is adjacent to the Banda Arc . [ 1 ]
Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt 11 32.8 Cieneguillas Ignimbrite 6 Morne Trois Pitons: Dominica, Lesser Antilles island arc 58 33.3 Roseau Tuff/Ignimbrite 7 Lake Ranau: Sunda Arc, Sumatra: 150 33.6 Ranau Tuff 6 Nemo Peak Onekotan, Kuril Islands 31.3 34 Nemo II 6 Mount Batur: Sunda Arc, Bali 84 34.6 Ubud Ignimbrite 6 Ksudach Kamchatka 25 35
There are 45 active volcanoes on the island excluding 20 small craters and cones in the Dieng volcanic complex and the young cones in the Tengger caldera complex. Some volcanoes are grouped together in the list below because of their close location. Mount Merapi, Semeru and Kelud are the most active volcanoes in Java
Location and Notes Mount Klabat: 1,995: ... Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia Mount Lamongan: ... A list (incomplete) of volcanoes on Earth arranged by elevation in ...
Mount Galunggung is part of the Sunda Arc extending through Sumatra, Java and the Lesser Sunda Islands, which has resulted from the subduction of the Australian Plate beneath the Eurasian Plate. For the first time since 1982 after eruptions finished and conditions seemed normal, on February 12, 2012, the status was upgraded to Alert based on ...
Lake Bandung (Sundanese: Situ Hiang) was a prehistoric lake located in and around the city of Bandung, Parahyangan highlands, West Java, Indonesia. believed to exist between 126,000 and 20,000 BCE in the Pleistocene due to the violent eruption of Mount Sunda that blocked the Citarum River, causing the lowlands to begin to be inundated with water, eventually forming a lake.
Together with Mount Burangrang and Bukit Tunggul, it is a remnant of the ancient Mount Sunda after the plinian eruption caused the Caldera to collapse. In April 2005, the Directorate of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised an alert, forbidding visitors from going up the volcano.