Baluran (Indonesia)

Status Normal Eruption Unknown 1247m
Stratovolcano (Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km))

The small 1247-m-high andesitic volcano of Baluran, dwarfed by its neighbor Ijen volcano to the SW, occupies the very NE tip of Java. Gunung Baluran contains a broad horseshoe-shaped crater breached to the NE. The volcano lies within a national park and game reserve featuring savannah grasslands and monsoon forests. Baluran was considered by van Bemmelen (1949b) to be of Holocene age.

An atmospheric cloud drifts to the east from the summit of the small 1247-m-high andesitic volcano of Baluran, seen here from the SW, along the saddle between it and Ijen volcano. Gunung Baluran, which occupies the very NE tip of Java, contains a broad horseshoe-shaped crater breached to the NE. The volcano lies within a national park and game reserve featuring savannah grasslands and monsoon forests.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1995 (Smithsonian Institution).

Last updated 2019-08-04 00:28:02