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A volcanic group is a collection of related volcano

Volcano

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es or volcanic landforms. Note that the term is also used in a different sense when it denotes a suite of associated rock strata

Stratum

In geology and related fields, a stratum is a layer of sedimentary rock or soil with internally consistent characteristics that distinguish it from other layers...

largely of volcanic origin; see group (stratigraphy)

Group (stratigraphy)

A group in stratigraphy is a lithostratigraphic unit, a part of the geologic record or rock column that consists of defined rock strata. Groups are divided into formations and are sometimes themselves grouped into "supergroups"....

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Notable volcanic groups

Volcanic Group	Location
Akan Volcanic Complex Akan Volcanic Complex Akan Volcanic Complex is a volcanic group of volcanoes that grew out of the Akan caldera. It is located within Akan National Park, about 50km Northwest of Kushiro in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.-Description:...
Antillanca Group Antillanca Group Antillanca Group is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes. Casablanca stratovolcano is the tallest volcano of the group, which shelters the Antillanca ski resort on its west flank. Aguas Calientes and Puyehue Hot springs also form part of this volcanic group...
Azuma Group Mount Azuma is an active stratovolcano in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.It has a conical-shaped crater and as the name "Kofuji" suggests, the shape of Mount Azuma is like that of Mount Fuji...
Banda Islands Banda Islands The Banda Islands are a volcanic group of ten small volcanic islands in the Banda Sea, about south of Seram Island and about east of Java, and are part of the Indonesian province of Maluku. The main town and administrative centre is Bandanaira, located on the island of the same name. They rise...
Blake River Megacaldera Complex Blake River Megacaldera Complex The Blake River Megacaldera Complex, also called the Blake River Group, is a giant subaqueous caldera cluster or a nested caldera system that spans across the Ontario-Quebec border in Canada....
Borrowdale Volcanic Group
Carmacks Group Carmacks Group The Carmacks Group is a Late Cretaceous volcanic group in southwest-central Yukon, Canada, located between the communities of Dawson City and Whitehorse. It consists of flood basalts, course volcaniclastic rocks and sandy tuffs interbedded with subordinate andesite and basaltic lava flows...
Carrán-Los Venados Carrán-Los Venados Carrán-Los Venados is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes in southern Chile, southeast of Ranco Lake. The highest cone is Los Guindos , which is a small stratovolcano with an elevation of . The volcanic group has recorded eruptions from 1955 and 1979...
Cochiquito Volcanic Group Cochiquito Volcanic Group The Cochiquito Volcanic Group is a small volcanic group of volcanoes north of the town of Buta Ranquil in Argentina. The main peak is Volcán Cochiquito, a stratovolcano of estimated Pleistocene–Holocene age. There are eight satellite cones in the volcanic field, including Volcán Sillanegra and...
Coppermine River Group
Dacht-i-Navar Group Dacht-i-Navar Group Dacht-i-Navar is a volcanic group of 15 trachyandesitic lava domes located southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan. The lava domes lie along the southern margin of Dacht-i-Navar.Last eruption is Unknown....
Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group The is a volcanic group of peaks arranged around the wide caldera in Hokkaidō, Japan. In the Ainu language it is known as Nutapukaushipe or Nutaku Kamushupe. These peaks are the highest in Hokkaidō...
Duluth Complex Duluth Complex The Duluth Complex, the related Beaver Bay Complex , and the associated North Shore Volcanic Group are rock formations which comprise much of the basement bedrock of the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Minnesota...
Ellesmere Island Volcanics Ellesmere Island Volcanics The Ellesmere Island Volcanics are a Late Cretaceous volcanic group of volcanoes and lava flows in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of northern Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada.Ellesmere Island Volcanics are part of the Arctic Cordillera...
Fueguino Fueguino Fueguino, also known as Cook, is a cluster of lava domes and pyroclastic cones located on Cook Island, Tierra del Fuego, Chile. This volcanic group lies south of the Magallanes-Fagnano Fault, on the Scotia Plate....
Galápagos Islands Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed around the equator in the Pacific Ocean, west of continental Ecuador, of which they are a part.The Galápagos Islands and its surrounding waters form an Ecuadorian province, a national park, and a...
Gambier Group Gambier Group The Gambier Group is an Early Cretaceous aged geologic group in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia, Canada. It was formed on the easternmost point of the Wrangellia Terrane as a volcanic arc about 100 million years ago along a west-to southwest-dipping subduction zone...
Hakkōda Mountains
Heard and McDonald Islands
Jemez Mountains Jemez Mountains The Jemez Mountains are a volcanic group of mountains in New Mexico, United States. The highest point in the range is Chicoma Mountain at an elevation of 11,561 feet . The town of Los Alamos and Los Alamos National Laboratory adjoin the eastern side of the range while the town of Jemez Springs...
Kaiserstuhl Kaiserstuhl The „Kaiserstuhl“ is a relatively low mountain range – a Mittelgebirge – with a maximal height of 556.6 m above sea level. It is of volcanic origin and located in the South West of Baden-Württemberg, Germany in the districts of Emmendingen and Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald...
Karpinsky Group Karpinsky Group Karpinsky Group is a volcanic group located at the southern end of Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia. The group is capped by two gently sloping cones rising to a height of 1345 m. They are composed of andesites and andesite-basalts. In the two craters there are fumaroles and fountains of...
Lomonosov Group Lomonosov Group Lomonosov Group is a volcanic group of cinder cones located in the southern part of Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia.- References :*...
Meager Group Mount Meager Mount Meager, originally known as Meager Mountain, is a complex volcano in the Sea-to-Sky Corridor of southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It is located north of Vancouver at the northern end of the Pemberton Valley. Part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc of western North America, its summit is above...
Milbanke Sound Group Milbanke Sound Group The Milbanke Sound Group, also called the Milbanke Sound Cones, is an enigmatic group of five small basaltic volcanoes in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains in British Columbia, Canada. Named for Milbanke Sound, this volcanic group straddles on at least four small uninhabited islands,...
Monti della Tolfa Monti della Tolfa The Monti della Tolfa or "Tolfa Mountains" are a volcanic group in the Anti-Apennines of the northern part of the Lazio region of central Italy. They are bounded by the Tyrrhenian Sea coast to the west, by the Monti Sabatini to the east, and by the Monti Cimini and the Mignone river to the north...
Mount Edziza volcanic complex Mount Edziza volcanic complex The Mount Edziza volcanic complex is a large and potentially active north-south trending complex volcano in Stikine Country, northwestern British Columbia, Canada, located southeast of the small community of Telegraph Creek...
Mount Raiden Volcanic Group Mount Raiden Volcanic Group Mount Raiden Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of active stratovolcanoes and lava domes situated in Hokkaidō, Japan. The volcanoes were active 1.4 million to 800,000 years ago.-List of peaks:...
Nipesotsu-Maruyama Volcanic Group
Niseko Volcanic Group Niseko Volcanic Group Niseko Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of active stratovolcanoes and lava domes situated in Hokkaidō, Japan. The volcanoes are younger than 400,000 years. The last eruption was 6,000 to 7,000 years ago. Today Iwaonupuri shows fumarolic activity....
Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group Northern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group , also just Kita Yatsugatake is a volcanic group of stratovolcanoes and lava domes located in Nagano Prefecture on Honshū in Japan.-Description:...
Olkhovy Volcanic Group
Pinacate Peaks Pinacate Peaks The Pinacate Peaks are a volcanic group of volcanic peaks and cinder cones located mostly in the Mexican state of Sonora along the international border adjacent to the U.S...
Pocdol Mountains Pocdol Mountains The Pocdol Mountains are a volcanic group of stratovolcanos in the Philippines.The range is also known as the Bacon-Manito Volcanic Group.-Location:...
Puyuhuapi (volcanic group) Puyuhuapi (volcanic group) Puyuhuapi Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of cinder cones located at the head of Puyuhuapi Channel, in the Aisén Region of Chile....
Rat Islands Rat Islands The Rat Islands are a volcanic group of islands in the Aleutian Islands in southwest Alaska, between Buldir Island and the Near Islands group to its west, and Amchitka Pass and the Andreanof Islands group to its east, at about ....
Shikaribetsu Volcanic Group Shikaribetsu Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of lava domes surrounding Lake Shikaribetsu in Hokkaidō, Japan. The Shikaribetsu volcanic group is located in Daisetsuzan National Park...
Skukum Group Skukum Group The Skukum Group is a 55 million year old volcanic group in northern British Columbia and southern Yukon, Canada. It consists of discrete calderas in a linear range from the south end of Atlin Lake to Bennett Lake, then to Aishihik Lake. The cluster of rocks crowds the Mount Skukum gold deposit...
Southern Yatsugatake Volcanic Group
Spences Bridge Group Spences Bridge Group The Spences Bridge Group is a 100 million year old volcanic group of the southern Intermontane Belt in British Columbia, Canada. It consists of two stratigraphic units known as the Pimainus Formation and the Spins Formation...
Takuan Group Takuan Group Takuan Group is a volcanic group located in the southern part of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. It consists of three closely spaced stratovolcanoes, Mount Takuan being the highest of them.- References :*...
Tatun Volcano Group Tatun Volcano Group thumb\|265px\|[[Cising Mountain\|Chihsingshan]] , the highest peak of these volcanoes, has a height of 1120 m.Tatun Volcanoes , a volcanic group of volcanoes located at northern Taiwan, is located 15 km north of Taipei, and lies to the west of Keelung. It just adjoins the northern coast of the...
Tokachi Volcanic Group Tokachi Volcanic Group is a volcanic group of mainly stratovolcanoes arrayed along a southwest-northeast axis in Hokkaidō, Japan.The volcanic group lies on the Kurile arc of the Pacific ring of fire, and consists of andesite, basalt, and dacite stratovolcanoes and lava domes...
Tomuraushi Volcanic Group Tomuraushi Volcanic Group is a volcanic group in Hokkaidō, Japan. Along with the Daisetsuzan Volcanic Group they make up the Ishikari Mountains in Daisetsuzan National Park. The group consists of andesite and dacite stratovolcanoes and lava domes.-List of volcanoes:...
Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group. It is the most remote inhabited archipelago in the world, lying from the nearest land, South Africa, and from South America...
Vernadskii Ridge Vernadskii Ridge Vernadskii Ridge is a volcanic group located in the northern part of Paramushir Island, Kuril Islands, Russia.It is named after Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky....
Vitu Islands Vitu Islands The Vitu Islands are a volcanic group with an area of 37 sq mi located in the Bismarck Archipelago of Papua New Guinea in the South West Pacific....
Yasawa Group

Notable volcanic groups

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