EarthChem Home
Decade Home
About EarthChem
Overview
News
About DECADE
Help
Login
Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Mashu
The deep blue waters of 6-km-wide Mashu caldera are seen here from its western rim. The small island of Kamuishu in the center of Lake Mashu (right-center) is the tip of a mostly submerged lava dome. Mashu is a Holocene caldera of a volcano constructed on the ESE rim of the Kussharo caldera. Following caldera collapse, Kamuinupuri (whose lower flanks are visible at the far right) formed beginning about 4,000 years ago. Copyrighted photo by Shun Nakano, 2001 (Japanese Quaternary Volcanoes database, RIODB, http://riodb02.ibase.aist.go.jp/strata/VOL_JP/EN/index.htm and Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://www.gsj.jp/).
Volcano Number:
285081
Volcano Name:
Mashu
Country:
Japan
Volcano Type:
Caldera
Last Eruption:
1080 CE
Elevation:
857m
Tectonic Setting:
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
9794
Pop. within 10km:
9794
Pop. within 30km:
25627
Pop. within 100km:
632919
Latitude:
43.572
Longitude:
144.561
Details
Hide
Mashu is a 6-km-wide Holocene caldera that truncates a stratovolcano constructed on the ESE rim of the large Kussharo caldera. The steep-walled caldera, filled by Lake Mashu, is one of the scenic highlights of Hokkaido. Following caldera collapse about 7,000 years ago, a small andesitic stratovolcano, Kamuinupuri, was formed beginning about 4,000 years ago, creating a reentrant into the SE side of the deep caldera lake. A large explosive eruption about 1,000 years ago, the latest dated eruption, created a 1.2 x 1.5 km crater at the summit of Kamuinupuri. The small island of Kamuishu in the center of Lake Mashu represents the tip of a mostly submerged dacitic lava dome.
Download XLS
Eruption Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Show 7 Results
Hide Results
Emissions Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Sorry. No emissions data found for this volcano.
Data from the Earthchem Library
Sorry. No data exist for this volcano in the EarthChem Library.
Data from the Earthchem Portal
Sorry. No data exist for this volcano in the EarthChem Portal.
Data from the SESAR Database
Sorry. No data exist for this volcano in the SESAR database.
Data from the MaGa Database
Sorry. No data exist for this volcano in the MaGa database.
Data from UNAVCO
Sorry. No data exist for this volcano in the UNAVCO database.
Data from USIEI
Sorry. This volcano is not covered by any USIEI projects
Data from IRIS FDSNWS
Show 620 Results
Hide Results