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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Greece. Name Elevation (m) (ft) Location Last eruption Aegina
Santorini caldera is a large, mostly submerged caldera, located in the southern Aegean Sea, 120 kilometers north of Crete in Greece.Visible above water is the circular Santorini island group, consisting of Santorini (known as Thera in antiquity), the main island, Therasia and Aspronisi at the periphery, and the Kameni islands at the center.
Those of Santorini, located at about the center of the The South Aegean Volcanic Arc is a volcanic arc in the South Aegean Sea formed by plate tectonics . The prior cause was the subduction of the African plate beneath the Eurasian plate , raising the Aegean arc across what is now the North Aegean Sea .
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The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE. [2] [3] It destroyed the Minoan settlement at Akrotiri, as well as communities and agricultural areas on nearby islands and the coast of Crete with subsequent earthquakes and paleotsunamis. [4]
Extinct volcanism, especially that which is so old and/or eroded that a formal volcano can no longer be clearly identified. Also includes extinct volcanoes themselves in a subcategory. Subcategories
Mount Pirongia is an extinct stratovolcano located in the Waikato region of New Zealand's North Island. It rises to 959 m (3,146 ft) and is the highest peak around the Waikato plains. Pirongia's many peaks are basaltic cones created by successive volcanic eruptions between the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene, about 2.5 million years ago. [4]