Mont Richard-Foy

Cochons, Ile aux

Stratovolcano · France · 775m

This shadows captured in this Sentinel-2 satellite image acquired on 19 May 2019 (N is at the top) highlights the steep southern cliffs of Ile aux Cochons. The 10-km-wide island has preserved scoria cones with craters across the landmass. · Photo: Satellite image courtesy of Copernicus Sentinel Data, 2019. · Wikimedia Commons

Type: Stratovolcano
Country: France
Region: Somalian-Antarctic Volcanic Regions / Crozet Hotspot Volcano Group
Elevation: 775m
Coordinates: -46.100, 50.230
Last eruption: Unknown
Tectonic setting: Rift zone / Oceanic crust (< 15 km)
Landform: Composite
Major rock type: Basalt / Picro-Basalt

Geological summary

The 8 x 10 km Ile aux Cochons, at the W end of the Crozet Islands, is a single stratovolcano with a small summit caldera and more than 60 scoria cones. The production of phreatomagmatic breccias interbedded with thin lava flows was followed by block faulting and the eruption of scoria cones and lava flows along four radial fracture systems. Bellair (1964) considered the Morne Rouge cone on the E coast to be younger than a cone on Possession Island estimated to be several hundred years old.

From Wikipedia

Mont Richard-Foy is the highest mountain in the Île aux Cochons, Crozet Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Indian Ocean.

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Eruption history

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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