Ascensión

Space shuttle image of Ascension Island

Ascension Island is a Holocene stratovolcano with no known historic eruptions. Space Shuttle photo STS070-0712-0086.

The following photographs are of lava fields on Ascension. They were provided and copyrighted by Olivier Staiger.

dead tree

 

Ascension Island post lava flow

 

giant rock on Ascension Island

 

Ascension Island lava rock

 

Ascension Island volcano

 

Sources of Information:

Neumann van Padang, M., Richards, A.F., Machado, F., Bravo, T., Baker, E., Le Maitre, W., 1967, Part XXI, Atlantic Ocean: Catalogue of the active volcanoes of the world, International Association of Volcanology, Rome, Italy, 128 p.

Simkin, T., and Siebert, L., 1994, Volcanoes of the World: Geoscience Press, Tucson, Arizona, 349 p.

 

Latitude (DD)
-7.95
Longitude (dd)
-14.37
Elevation (m)
858
State (Province, etc)
Ascension Island
Country
South Atlantic Ocean
Type
Stratovolcano