Mount Lamington

Japanese: ラミントン[山](英語表記)Mount Lamington
Mount Lamington
Mount Lamington is a highly eroded stratovolcano (1,780m above sea level) in the southeastern part of New Guinea, composed of amphibole andesite, with a U-shaped crater opening to the north at its summit. Mount Lamington was thought to be an extinct volcano, but in 1951 it erupted violently, with a volcanic collapse and pyroclastic flows, destroying forests and farmland within a 10km radius of the summit and killing 3,000 residents. A lava dome of amphibole andesite subsequently grew at the bottom of the crater, reaching a relative height of 560m the following year. [Katsui Yoshio]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
ニューギニア島南東部にある侵食の進んだ成層火山(標高1780m)で,角セン石安山岩からなり,山頂にU字形の火口が北に開いている。ラミントン山は死火山と考えられていたが,1951年に山体崩壊と火砕流を伴う大噴火をおこし,山頂から半径約10kmにわたって森林,耕地を破壊し,住民3000人が犠牲となった。その後,火口底に角セン石安山岩の溶岩円頂丘が成長し,翌年には比高560mに達した。【勝井 義雄】

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