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Mountain Karang

Karang

Stratovulcano · Indonesia · 1768 m

Karang is the large, circular, forested volcano below and to the left of the center of this NASA International Space Station image (N is to the upper right) is. It is located to the SE of the 15-km-wide Pleistocene Danau caldera visible above the center of the image. There are two craters on the SE flank of Karang volcano, the highest peak in this volcanic region at the western tip of Java.
Karang is the large, circular, forested volcano below and to the left of the center of this NASA International Space Station image (N is to the upper right) is. It is located to the SE of the 15-km-wide Pleistocene Danau caldera visible above the center of the image. There are two craters on the SE flank of Karang volcano, the highest peak in this volcanic region at the western tip of Java. · Foto: NASA International Space Station image ISS004-E-10353, 2002 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/). · Wikimedia Commons
Tipo
Stratovulcano
Paese
Indonesia
Regione
Sunda-Banda Volcanic Regions / Sunda Volcanic Arc
Altitudine
1768 m
Coordinate
-6.268, 106.050
Ultima eruzione
Sconosciuto
Contesto tettonico
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Forma vulcanica
Composite
Roccia principale
Andesite / Basaltic Andesite
Sintesi geologica

Gunung Karang volcano in westernmost Java was constructed SE of the 15-km-wide Pleistocene Danau caldera. Two craters, Kawah Welirang and Kawah Haji, display fumarolic activity and are found on the eastern flanks, which may be of Holocene age (Bronto 1995, pers. comm.). The forested andesitic and basaltic volcano is the highest of a group of stratovolcanoes in the Danau caldera area and lies across a low saddle from Pulosari volcano.

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Riassunto in inglese

Mount Karang is a volcano at the center of Banten, Indonesia. It is also the highest point of the province.

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