Teide summit crater (Canary Islands, Spain)
Mount Teide summit crater, Tenerife, canary Islands. Spectacular views of the Las Cañadas caldera from the summit of Mount Teide stratovolcano at 3718 metres altitude. The small 80 metre wide crater has hundreds of active fumaroles emitting Sulfurous water vapor (Image credits: Francis Abbott).
| Volcano: | Teide (see Teide at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | Persistent diffuse degassing activity on the summit crater of the volcano. |
Point of contact for this site:
Gladys Melián, gladys@iter.es (Instituto Volcanológico de Canarias, INVOLCAN)
Bibliographic references for this site
Melián, G., Tassi, F., Pérez, H., Hernández, P., Sortino, F., Vaselli, O., Padròn, E., Nolasco, D., Barrancos, J., Padilla, G., Rodriguez, F., Dionis, S., Calvo, D., Notsu, K., Sumino, H., 2012,A magmatic source for fumaroles and diffuse degassing from the summit crater of Teide Volcano (Tenerife, Canary Islands): a geochemical evidence for teh 2004-2005 seismic-volcanic crisis, Bulletin of Volcanology, vol.74, n.66, pp. 1465-1483, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-012-0613-1
