No latest activity reported for Plat Pays, Morne.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Deplus C, Le Friant A, Boudon G, Komorowski J-C, Villemant B, Harford C, Segoufin J, Cheminee J-L, 2001. Submarine evidence for large-scale debris avalanches in the Lesser Antilles arc. {Earth Planet Sci Lett}, 192: 145-157

Halama R, Boudon G, Villemant B, Joron J-L, Le Friant A, Komorowski J-C, 2006. Pre-eruptive crystallization conditions of mafic and silicic magmas at the Plat Pays volcanic complex, Dominica (Lesser Antilles). {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 153: 200-220

Lindsay J M, Smith A L, Roobol M J, Stasiuk M V, 2005b. Dominica. {In}: Lindsay J M, Robertson R E A, Shepherd J B, Ali S (eds). {Volcanic Hazard Atlas of the Lesser Antilles}, Trinidad and Tobago, Seismic Res Unit, Univ West Indies, p 1-47

Lindsay J M, Stasiuk M V, Shepherd J B, 2003. Geological history and potential hazards of the late-Pleistocene to Recent Plat Pays volcanic complex, Dominica, Lesser Antilles. {Bull Volc}, 65: 201-220

Lindsay J M, Trumbull R B, Siebel W, 2005c. Geochemistry and petrogenesis of late Pleistocene to Recent volcanism in southern Dominica, Lesser Antilles. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 148: 253-294

Robson G R, Tomblin J, 1966. West Indies. {Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields}, Rome: IAVCEI, 20: 1-56

Roobol M J, Wright J V, Smith A L, 1983. Calderas of gravity-slide structures in the Lesser Antilles Island Arc?. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 19: 121-134

Samper A, Quidelleur X, Boudon G, Le Friant A, Komorowski J C, 2008. Radiometric dating of three large volume flank collapses in the Lesser Antilles arc. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 176: 485-492

Seismic Research Unit, 2001. Seismo-volcanic activity in Dominica (updated July 11, 2001). Seismic Res Unit, Univ West Indies (http://www.uwiseismic.com/dominica.html)

Shepherd J B, 2001. Volcanoes of the eastern Caribbean: past activity and future hazards. Paper presented at the Workshop on Volcanic and Seismic Hazards in the eastern Caribbean, May 28- June 1, 2001, 57 p

Shepherd J B, 1989. Eruptions, eruption precursors and related phenomena in the Lesser Antilles. {In}: Latter J H (ed), {Volcanic Hazards - Assessment and Monitoring}, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, p 292-311

Wadge G, 1985. Morne Patates volcano, southern Dominica, Lesser Antilles. {Geol Mag}, 122: 253-260

The Morne Plat Pays volcanic complex occupies the southern tip of the island of Dominica and has been active throughout the Holocene. An arcuate caldera that formed about 39,000 years ago as a result of a major explosive eruption and flank collapse is open to Soufrière Bay on the west. This depression cuts the SW side of Morne Plat Pays stratovolcano and extends to the southern tip of Dominica. At least a dozen small post-caldera lava domes were emplaced within and outside this depression, including one submarine dome south of Scotts Head. The latest dated eruptions at the Morne Plat Pays complex occurred from the Morne Patates lava dome about 1270 AD, although younger deposits have not yet been dated. The Morne Plat Pays complex is the site of extensive fumarolic activity, and at least ten swarms of small-magnitude earthquakes, none associated with eruptive activity, have occurred since 1765 at Morne Patates.