Kerinci is Indonesia's highest volcano, and one of its most active, and is seen here above tea plantations to the south. A small plume rises from the unvegetated summit that has a cone containing a 600-m-wide summit crater over 400 m deep with a crater lake at the bottom. Frequent small-to-moderate explosive eruptions have occurred in historical time.

Photo by Tom Casadevall, 1987 (U.S. Geological Survey).

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Galleries: Volcanic Gases

Keywords: stratovolcano | gas | gas plume

Kerinci