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Mota Lava Volcano | John Seach
Banks Islands, Torba Province, Vanuatu
13.7 deg S, 167.65 deg E
Summit elevation 411 m
Stratovolcano
Mota Lava Island is the third largest in the Banks Islands, and has an area of 33 sq km. The island is elongated in a NE-SW axis which corresponds to the central spine of deeply eroded volcanics.
Further reading
Sorbadere, F., Schiano, P., Métrich, N. and Bertagnini, A., 2013. Small-scale coexistence of island-arc-and enriched-MORB-type basalts in the central Vanuatu arc. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 166(5), pp.1305-1321
Barsdell, M., Smith, I.E.M. and Spörli, K.B., 1982. The origin of reversed geochemical zoning in the northern New Hebrides volcanic arc. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 81(2), pp.148-155.
Mota Lava Volcano Eruptions
300,000 years ago