GVP volcano 320140 · no holder yet
Nazko
Nazko is a 1,238 m pyroclastic cone in Canada, last erupted around 5220 BCE.
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone(s) (minor (basaltic) landform)
- Summit
- 1,238 m above sea level
- Rock
- Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite
- Setting
- Intraplate, continental, over 25 km
- Last eruption
- 5220 BCE
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 52.93°N 123.73°W · Canada
- Region
- Interior Western Canada Volcanic Province, North America Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 320140
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).