Steep cliffs up to 300-m-high surround the small island of Toshima. Toshimamura, the port village of the island, is to the far left in this view from the west. Toshima lies about 20 km W of the main volcanic front of the Izu-Marianas arc. Recent activity occurred between about 8,000 and 40,00 years ago.

Copyrighted photo by Shun Nakano (Japanese Quaternary Volcanoes database, RIODB, http://riodb02.ibase.aist.go.jp/strata/VOL_JP/EN/index.htm and Geol Surv Japan, AIST, http://www.gsj.jp/).

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Keywords: erosion | island volcano

Toshima