Somma volcano
A Somma volcano (or a Somma-type volcano ) consists of a caldera with a volcanic cone at its center. It is named after the stratovolcano Monte Somma in southern Italy , in whose summit caldera the cone of Vesuvius has formed.
A large number of Somma volcanoes can be found on the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands to the south .
Aerial view of Fogo (Cape Verde Islands), as an example of a Somma volcano. The volcanic cone of Pico do Fogo is 100 m higher than the walls of the surrounding caldera .
Well-known Somma volcanoes are:
- Europe:
- Monte Somma or Vesuvius (Italy)
- Africa:
- Pico do Fogo , Fogo (Cape Verde Islands)
- Teide , Tenerife (Canary Islands)
- Asia:
- Aira Caldera , Kyushu (Japan)
- Ebeko , Paramushir (Kuril Islands)
- Kolokol Group : Kolokol, Berg, Borzov, Trezubetz; on Urup , (Kuril Islands)
- Krenitsyn , 1325 m high, in the caldera Tao Rusy, Onekotan , Kuril Islands
- Medvezhia , Iturup (Kuril Islands)
- Milna , Simushir (Kuril Islands)
- Zarechny , Kamchatka Peninsula
- Tyatya , Kunashir (Kuril Islands)
- Urataman , Simushir (Kuril Islands)
- America:
- Cosigüina (Nicaragua)