Abstract
THE Soufrière mountain forms the northern extremity of St. Vincent, and its general form at once suggests a comparison with Vesuvius. It is a sample cone without lateral or parasitic craters. The one at its summit is surrounded on the north side by the remains of a gigantic crater ring, which has the same relation to the present crater as Somma has to Vesuvius. On the north-east lip of the main crater there is a smaller one known as the New Crater, as it is believed to have originated in the eruption of 1812. It is only one-third of a mile in diameter. It is doubtful whether the New Crater was active during the late eruption, and there can be no doubt that it was from the principal crated, or “Old Crater,” that the materials mostly were emitted. Deep Valleys, often with precipitous sides, have been cut in the slopes of the mountain, especially on its southern side, and it is in these—and particularly in the Wallibu, Rozeau and Rabaca Dry River—that the greater part of the ejecta of the recent eruption have collected.
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Royal Society Report on the West Indian Eruptions 1 . Nature 66, 402–406 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066402a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/066402a0