Nieuwerkerk (volcano)

Nieuwerkerk
Summit depth 2,285 metres (7,497 feet) [1]
Location
Location Banda Sea
Country Indonesia
Geology
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).

See also

References

  1. ^ "Nieuwerkerk". Global Volcanism Program. Smithsonian Institution. http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0605-02=. Retrieved 2006-12-13. 
  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. Bibcode 1998Tectp.298..297H. doi:10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00190-5. http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/00401951/1998/00000298/00000004/art00190.