GVP volcano 371090 · no holder yet
Hofsjokull
Hofsjokull is a 1,765 m fissure vent in Iceland, with no dated eruption on record.
- Type
- Fissure vent(s) (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 1,765 m above sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- no dated eruption
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 0 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 64.83°N 18.77°W · Iceland
- Region
- Iceland Neovolcanic Rift Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 371090
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).