Nieuwerkerk (volcano)

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Nieuwerkerk

Summit depth	2,285 metres (7,497 feet) ^[1]
Location	Banda Sea
Coordinates	6°36′S 124°40.5′E / -6.6, 124.675Coordinates: 6°36′S 124°40.5′E / -6.6, 124.675
Country	Indonesia
Type	submarine volcano
Last eruption	1927?

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).

[edit] See also

List of volcanoes in Indonesia

[edit] References

Indonesia Portal

^ Nieuwerkerk. Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved on 2006-12-13.
^ 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.