Nieuwerkerk (volcano)

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Nieuwerkerk
Elevation -2,285 metres (-7,497 feet)[1]
Location Banda Sea, Indonesia
Coordinates 6.60° S 124.675° E
Type submarine
Last eruption unknown

Nieuwerkerk is a submarine volcano in the Banda Sea, Indonesia. Along with the Emperor of China submarine volcano, the two twin forms a ridge (NEC ridge) on the seabed.[2] The NEC ridge were dredged at depths ranging from 3,100–2,700 metres (10,170–8,858 ft).

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  1. ^ Nieuwerkerk. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institute. Retrieved on December 13, 2006.
  2. ^ Christian Honthaasa, Jean-Pierre Réhaulta, René C. Maurya, Hervé Bellona, Christophe Hémonda, Jacques-André Maloda, Jean-Jacques Cornéeb, Michel Villeneuveb, Joseph Cottena, Safri Burhanuddinc, Hervé Guilloud and Nicolas Arnaud (1998). "A Neogene back-arc origin for the Banda Sea basins: geochemical and geochronological constraints from the Banda ridges (East Indonesia)". Tectonophysics 298 (4): 297–317. DOI:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00190-5. 


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