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For the Romans, the island of Vulcano was the habitation of the fire god Vulcan. The Greek fire god Hephaestos maintained his chthonic forge on the island of Lesbos.
The volcanic activity in the region is largely the result of the northward-moving African Plate meeting the Eurasian Plate. There are at least three volcanic centres on the island:
At the southern end of the island are old stratovolcano cones - Monte Aria (500 m), Monte Saraceno (481 m) and Monte Luccia (188 m) - which have partially collapsed into the Il Piano Caldera.
The most recently active centre is the Gran Cratere at the top of the Fossa cone, the cone having grown in the Lentia Caldera in the middle of the island, and has had at least 7 major eruptions in the last 6000 years.
At the north of the island is Vulcanello, 123 metres high, and is connected to the rest of it by an isthmus which is flooded in bad weather. It emerged from the sea during an eruption in 183 BC as a separate islet. Occasional eruptions from its three cones with both pyroclastic flow deposits and lavas occurred from then until 1550, the last eruption creating a narrow isthmus connecting it to Vulcano.
Vulcano has been quiet since the eruption of the Fossa cone in 3 August 1888- 1890, which deposited about 5 metres of pyroclasticPyroclastic is a term used in volcanology to describe air fall material ejected during a volcanic eruption. This material, known as pyroclast may include pumice, volcanic bombs, ignimbrite and ash. See also Pyroclastic flow Pyroclastic rock Pyroclastic su material on the summit.
Until the end of the 19th Century the principle activity on the island was the mining of sulphur and alumFor alum meaning "graduate," see Alumn. Alum in chemistry, is a term given to the crystallized double sulfates of the typical formula MSO·MIII(SO)·24HO, where M is the sign of an alkali metal ( lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, caesium, or francium),. Around 700 people live on the island, mainly deriving their income from tourism. It is a few minutes hydrofoilPeterhof preparing to travel swiftly through the Gulf of Finland to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg A hydrofoil is a boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull. As the craft increases its speed the hydrofoils develop enough lift for th ride from LipariLipari (Roman Lipara ancient Greek Meligunis is the biggest of the Aeolian Islands, in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, and also the island's main town. It has approximately 11,000 inhabitants and during the tourist season (May-September) and has several hotels and cafes, the important attractions being the beaches, hot springs and sulphur mud baths.
Vulcano has contributed the words for volcanoThis article is about volcanoes geology. For the action movie see: Volcano (movie). A volcano (plural, volcanoes) is a geological landform (usually a mountain) where magma (rock of the earth's interior made molten or liquid by high pressure and temperatur in most modern languages.
The style of eruption seen on the Fossa cone is called a Vulcanian eruption , being the explosive emission of pyroclasticPyroclastic is a term used in volcanology to describe air fall material ejected during a volcanic eruption. This material, known as pyroclast may include pumice, volcanic bombs, ignimbrite and ash. See also Pyroclastic flow Pyroclastic rock Pyroclastic su fragments of viscous magmaThis article is about the type of rock. For magmas in mathematics, see Magma (algebra). For the experimental jazz band, see Magma (band). For the computer algebra system, see Magma computer algebra system. For the EDA software company, see Magma Design Aus caused by the high viscocity preventing gases from escaping easily.
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