Loloru

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Location of major volcanoes on Bougainville Island. From Bultitude (1976).

Loloru is a pyroclastic shield with six eruptions in the Holocene, the most recent only 1,050 years ago. All of the eruptions were explosive and four generated pyroclastic flows.

Sources of Information:

Bultitude, R.J., 1976, Eruptive history of Bagana volcano, Papua New Guinea, between 1882 and 1975, in Johnson, R.W., ed., 1976, Volcanism in Australia: Amsterdam, Elsevier, p. 317-336.

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