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This is a list of active and extinct volcanoes in Greece. Name Elevation (m) (ft) Location Last eruption Aegina Pleistocene: Gyali: 180: 591 ...
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.
Stefanos, the largest crater of the volcano. Landscape. The island has a 3-to-4-kilometre (1.9 to 2.5 mi) wide caldera, and was formed within the past 150,000 years, with three separate eruptive stages, ranging from explosive and effusive andesitic eruptions to explosive and effusive dacitic and rhyolitic activity. [4]
Location Elevation (m) Coordinates Last eruption Notes ... Santorini, Greece: 118 m (387 ft) ... List of volcanoes in Europe.
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]
Pages in category "Extinct volcanoes of Europe" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Alpine cycle sedimentary rocks are situated between the European hinterland in the Rhodope Massif and Serbo-Macedonian Massif and northern fore-region of the African plate. External zones include the Paxi Zone , encompassing the islands in the Ionian Sea with dolomitized limestone from the Jurassic and Cretaceous - Miocene marl and gypsum .
Gyali (Greek: Γυαλί "glass", also spelled Giali or Yali, pronounced ) is a Greek volcanic island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos and Nisyros.