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Mount Batur Volcano

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Mount Batur Volcano
8.401378°S 115.363294°E

Mount Batur Volcano is the mountain to the left and Mount Agung Volcano is in the center. Note that Mount Agung is more typical of the shape of a statovolcano. June, 1991


Mount Batur caldera
8.280114°S 115.383267°E

The photograph was taken on the flank of Mount Batur caldera looking down at Batur Lake and Batur cone (to the left). June, 1991


Mount Batur cone
8.231044°S 115.389181°E

A view of Batur cone within Mount Batur Volcano. Recent lava flows have come down the side of the cone from the crater at the top. June, 1991


Mount Batur caldera
8.241114°S 115.380100°E

The photograph was taken from the top of Batur cone toward the caldera rim and Lake Batur to the west. June, 1991


Lake Batur
8.280981°S 115.380144°E

Locals are fishing and tending to their crops along Lake Batur with Batur cone in the background. June, 1991


Mount Batur volcano
8.395183°S 115.462744°E

Monkeys run wild throughout Bali. June, 1991


Mount Batur volcano
8.438867°S 115.328200°E

The photograph displays examples of the rice paddies that occur across Bali. If you look closely, you can see Mount Batur (center) and Mount Agung (to the right) in the distance. June, 1991


Mount Batur

Mount Batur shown on the map by the red arrow

Mount Batur is an active volcano on the island of Bali, Indonesia. Large basaltic lava flows occurred in 1968 to the southwest of Batur cone.

Mount Batur once existed as a large cone-shaped statovolcano similar to nearby Mount Agung. However, massive eruptions forced the top of the cone to collapse into the emptied magma chamber below the volcano at least twice during the volcano’s recent history. The circular structure (viewed looking down on the volcano) is called a caldera. The latest caldera formation occurred about 23,000 years ago. Since that time, Lake Batur has formed within the caldera along with Batur cone. Batur cone formed from continuous eruptions on the floor of the caldera as it built up and currently erupts through two vents in the crater at the top of the cone.


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Mount Batur

Mount Batur (Gunung Batur) is an active volcano located at the center of two concentric calderas north west of Mount Agung, Bali, Indonesia. The south east side of the larger 10×13 km caldera contains a caldera lake. The inner 7.5-kilometer-wide caldera, which was formed during emplacement of the Bali (or Ubud) ignimbrite, has been dated at about 23,670 and 28,500 years ago

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