The 500-m-wide Sumiyoshiike maar formed about 7,000 years ago. Sumiyoshiike and Yonemaru are two maars that formed in coastal lowland deposits N of the Aira caldera during a period of rising sea level at the beginning of the Holocene. The larger 1.2-km-wide Yonemaru maar erupted about 2 km W of Sumiyoshiike about 6,500 years ago.

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Galleries: Craters

Keywords: maar | crater lake

Yonemaru-Sumiyoshiike