31/5/2020

Volcanic Eruptions Overview

This is world map of the last eruptions of active volcanos during the Holocene (last 11.700 years) by The Smithsonian Institution Global Volcanism Program. This is a sneak peek of the data set.

'data.frame':   1508 obs. of  12 variables:
 $ Number             : int  210010 210020 210030 210040 211001 211003 211004 211010 211020 211030 ...
 $ Name               : chr  "West Eifel Volcanic Field" "Chaine des Puys" "Olot Volcanic Field" "Calatrava Volcanic Field" ...
 $ Country            : chr  "Germany" "France" "Spain" "Spain" ...
 $ Region             : chr  "Mediterranean and Western Asia" "Mediterranean and Western Asia" "Mediterranean and Western Asia" "Mediterranean and Western Asia" ...
 $ Type               : chr  "Maar(s)" "Lava dome(s)" "Pyroclastic cone(s)" "Pyroclastic cone(s)" ...
 $ Activity.Evidence  : chr  "Eruption Dated" "Eruption Dated" "Evidence Credible" "Eruption Dated" ...
 $ Last.Known.Eruption: chr  "8300 BCE" "4040 BCE" "Unknown" "3600 BCE" ...
 $ Latitude           : num  50.2 45.8 42.2 38.9 43.2 ...
 $ Longitude          : num  6.85 2.97 2.53 -4.02 10.87 ...
 $ Elevation..Meters. : int  600 1464 893 1117 500 800 949 458 1281 789 ...
 $ Dominant.Rock.Type : chr  "Foidite" "Basalt / Picro-Basalt" "Trachybasalt / Tephrite Basanite" "Basalt / Picro-Basalt" ...
 $ Tectonic.Setting   : chr  "Rift Zone / Continental Crust (>25 km)" "Rift Zone / Continental Crust (>25 km)" "Intraplate / Continental Crust (>25 km)" "Intraplate / Continental Crust (>25 km)" ...