Emperor of China (volcano)

Emperor of China (volcano)

Infobox Seamount
Name=Emperor of China

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Depth= Convert|2850|m|ft|-1|abbr=on
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Location=Banda Sea
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Coordinates =coord|6|37|S|124|13|E|type:mountain |display=inline,title
Country =Indonesia
Type=Submarine volcano?
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Last eruption= 1927?
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Emperor of China is a submarine volcano in the western part of the Banda Sea, Indonesia. The volcano has a shield shape and rises m to ft|1500|abbrv=yes above the seabed. [cite web |title=Emperor of China Volcano |url=http://www.volcano.com.au/emperor.htm |accessdate=2006-12-08 |author=John Seach] Emperor of China volcano is in one chain with Nieuwerkerk volcano, known scientifically as the "Emperor of China–Nieuwkerk" (NEC) ridge, the depth of which is ranging from 3,100–2,700 metres (10,170–8,858 ft).cite journal |title= A Neogene back-arc origin for the Banda Sea basins: geochemical and geochronological constraints from the Banda ridges (East Indonesia) |journal=Tectonophysics |volume=298 |issue=4|date=1998 |pages=297–317 |url= http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/els/00401951/1998/00000298/00000004/art00190 |doi= 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00190-5 |author= Christian Honthaas, Jean-Pierre Réhault, René C. Maury, Hervé Bellon, Christophe Hémond, Jacques-André Malod, Jean-Jacques Cornée, Michel Villeneuve, Joseph Cotten, Safri Burhanuddin, Hervé Guillou and Nicolas Arnaud]

The NEC ridge is lying on Damar Basin, a sea basin of which has 1–2 km Pliocene–Quarternary sediment thickness and is topologically flat. Damar Basin is located in Banda Sea, which is bounded by East Sunda and Banda volcanic arcs within the area of three major plates, namely Eurasian, Pacific and Indo-Australian plates; all of the three plates have been actively converging since Mesozoic times.

The two submarine volcanoes (the Emperor of China and Nieuwerkerk) are located at both ends of the NEC ridge, and they were active. Based on the geological and geochemical study, Emperor of China, Nieuwekerk, another ridge in the Banda Sea called Lucipara, and the Wetar segment were a single volcanic arc around 8–7 Ma ago. The volcanic activity was related to the subduction of the Indian oceanic lithosphere beneath the Australia continental block. From a survey conducted in 1979, both Emperor of China and Nieuwerkerk have been defined as extinct based on their structural settings and their age, which is stated that the volcanic activity was estimated stopped after 7 Ma ago. [cite journal|author=Hamilton, W. |date=1979| title=Tectonics of the Indonesian Region| journal=U.S. Geolological Survey| issue=1078| pages=345] The end of magmatic activity in the NEC ridge at 3 Ma is thought of as the result from the collision of Timor and the Wetar segment of the Sunda Arc.

See also

* List of volcanoes in Indonesia

References

External links

* [http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0605-01= Global Volcanism Program: Emperor of China]


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