GVP volcano 373100 · no holder yet
Tjornes Fracture Zone
Tjornes Fracture Zone is a submarine fissure vent 75 m under the Greenland Sea, last erupted in 1868.
- Type
- Fissure vent (cluster landform)
- Summit
- 75 m below sea level
- Rock
- Basalt / Picro-Basalt
- Setting
- Rift zone, oceanic, under 15 km
- Last eruption
- 1868
- Largest known
- no eruption with a measured size
- Eruptions
- 1 confirmed in the record
- Where
- 66.31°N 17.12°W · The Greenland Sea
- Region
- Arctic Ridge Volcanic Province, Atlantic Ocean Volcanic Regions
- Record
- Global Volcanism Program, volcano 373100
Not a hazard warning. For safety information follow the World Organization of Volcano Observatories (its directory lists the observatory for each country).