the last time the volcano erupted in tenerife was 1909.
the last time the volcano erupted in tenerife was 1909.
when was the last time the volcano erupted in tenerife?
1909
tenerife is a rugged and volcanic island sculpted by successive eruptions throughout its history. there are four historically recorded volcanic eruptions, none of which has led to casualties. the first occurred in 1704, when the arafo, fasnia and siete fuentes volcanoes erupted simultaneously. two years later, in 1706, the greatest eruption occurred at trevejo. this volcano produced great quantities of lava which buried the city and port of garachico. the last eruption of the 18th century happened in 1798 at cañadas de teide, in chahorra. finally, and most recently, in 1909 that formed the chinyero cinder cone, in the municipality of santiago del teide, erupted.
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these geomorphological structures have resulted from millions of years of compound growth that began in the eastern portion of the island; around 4 million years ago the nordeste volcano burst from the ocean floor in effusive and fissural eruptions. these eruptions were composed of basaltic lava flows and spatter cones whose products reached a height of forming the mountainous region of tronqueiro, planalto dos graminhais, espigão dos bois and pico verde (finding its maximum extent in pico da vara). but, about 950,000 years ago a secondary volcano system (volcanic complex of povoação) supplanted the eruptions of the nordeste volcano, responsible for new basaltic lavas and pyroclastic deposits. with an age of 200,000 years the third volcano on são miguel, the água de pau volcano started erupting on the western flank of povoação volcano in two phases. the first phase, composed of the older materials, erupted from lava flows and trachyte pyroclasts, the secondary phase corresponded to volcanic products that began erupting 400,000 years ago. these latter deposits included pyroclastic, trachyte flows (lava and surges), mud flows and a mixture of basalts. in what would become the western portion of the island a fourth volcano formed: the sete cidades volcano erupted 200,000 years ago and continued to erupt until about 36,000 years ago. between 100,000 and 3,800 years ago fissural eruptions of integrated lava and basaltic pyroclastic deposits occurred in the center of the island between água de pau and povoação, forming the fissural volcanic system of congro. these eruptions were explosive and fed by activities in the neighboring volcanic systems. at about 100,000 years a secondary system developed along the frontier of the povoação volcano, the "furnas volcano" complex (the youngest volcanic system) in three phases mixing pyroclastic surges, trachytes, and lava flows, as well as explosive materials. finally, two layers of deposits formed the fissural volcanic system of picos between the volcanic água de pau and sete cidades from 31,000 years ago unifying the island. this formation integrated lavas, basaltic pyroclasts, tuff cones and trachyte domes into two layers (referred to as the ponta delgada and penhal da paz sub-depoists) and compiled to about 5,000 years ago.
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