Tor Zawar

Tor Zawar
Highest point
Elevation 2,237 m (7,339 ft)
Coordinates 30°28′45″N 67°28′30″E / 30.47917°N 67.47500°E / 30.47917; 67.47500
Geography
Location Pakistan Pakistan
Geology
Mountain type Fissure vents
Last eruption January 2010

Tor Zawar is a fissure vent volcano in central Pakistan and the only recent volcano in Pakistan and South Asia. Its first, and so far only, eruption occurred in January 2010.

Morphololgy

Tor Zawar is a group of closely spaced fissure vents on a non-volcanic mountain in a tectonically active region between the Bibai and Gogai thrust faults (Global Volcanism Program), which is in the Ziarat region near the village of Wham.

2010 eruption

An eruption in the region on 29 January 29, 2010 shocked the world's volcanological society, as no previous volcanic activity had ever taken place there before. A local scientist reported that the fissures opened, then emitted gases for a little while before the eruption began. The eruption produced a small spatter cone and a lava flow that only travelled 8.2 metres, and caused some minor damage. The eruption was of trachybasalt and basaltic-andesite in composition.

The eruption was preceded by a 60 km deep earthquake on 27 January. The calculated source depth of the lava is consistent with an origin at this depth in the asthenosphere.[1]

References

  1. Kerr, A. C. and Khan M. McDonald I (2010) Eruption of basaltic magma at Tor Zawar, Pakistan on 27 January 2010: geochemical and petrological constraints on petrogenesis, Mineral Mag, v. 74, pp. 1027-1036
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