Halvdan Volcano
Updated: Apr 24, 2024 00:06 GMT -
Explosion crater 834 m / 2736 ft
Spitsbergen, Arctic Ocean, Norway, 79.33°N / 13.5°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Spitsbergen, Arctic Ocean, Norway, 79.33°N / 13.5°E
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Halvdan volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
A Holocene age was considered reasonably probable for all the young volcanoes of Spitsbergen by Semevskii (1965), but more detailed glacial and volcanic stratigraphy indicates that Halvdan is an eroded diatreme probably older than Sverrefjell, which is thought to be between 100,000 and 250,000 year old (Skjelkvale et al. 1989).---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information