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There are no active volcanoes in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, although a few do exist in some
British Overseas Territories
, including
Queen Mary's Peak
in
Tristan da Cunha
,
Soufriere Hills
volcano on the Caribbean island of
Montserrat
, as well as
Mount Belinda
and
Mount Michael
in the British Overseas Territory of
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
.
The last time that volcanoes were active in what is now the United Kingdom was the early
Palaeogene
period, just over 50 million years ago (Ma), associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. Modern day hills and mountains within the UK which are sometimes described as extinct volcanoes are usually the deeply eroded roots of volcanoes active in prehistoric times.
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Some locations popularly believed to be volcanoes, such as
The Wrekin
, actually have different origins, such as being sites where volcanic material was deposited.
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List
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Below is a list of extinct
volcanoes
in the United Kingdom.
England
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Northern Ireland
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Scotland
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Wales
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See also
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References
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Emeleus, C.H.; Bell, B.R. (2005).
The Palaeogene volcanic districts of Scotland
(Fourth ed.). Nottingham: British Geological Survey, NERC. p. 6.
ISBN
0852725191
.
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"Shropshire - Features - The Wrekin"
.
BBC
. Retrieved
11 June
2021
.
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"Volcano models"
.
British Geological Survey
.
- ^
Carboniferous and Permian igneous rocks of England and Wales
(PDF)
. 2002
. Retrieved
27 November
2023
.
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British GS Calton Hill
, accessed 21 October 2008
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a
b
Charlotte, Becquart (14 January 2021).
"Cornwall's volcanoes that were active hundreds of millions of years ago"
.
Cornwall Live
. Retrieved
23 March
2021
.
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Scrutton, Colin.
"Page 1 Cheviot - early Devonian volcanic rocks, granite and basement"
. Archived from
the original
on June 11, 2021.
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Geology of England and Wales, pp118ff
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Oldroyd, David Roger (2002).
Earth, Water, Ice and Fire - Two Hundred Years of Geological Research in the English Lake District
. Geological Society. p. 277.
ISBN
9781862391079
. Retrieved
23 March
2021
.
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Smith, Sandy; Roberts, Clive.
"The Geology of Lundy"
(PDF)
.
LFS
. Retrieved
16 September
2022
.
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Cheshire, S. G.; Bell, J.D. (1 December 1976). "The Speedwell Vent, Castleton, Derbyshire: A Carboniferous Littoral Cone".
Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society
.
41
(2): 173?184.
doi
:
10.1144/pygs.41.2.173
.
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"The ancient volcano that's 81 miles from London"
.
Heritage Daily
. Heritage Daily. 10 May 2020
. Retrieved
23 March
2021
.
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Gernon, T M; Upton, B G J; Ugra, R; Yucel, C; Taylor, R N; Elliot, H (2016).
"Complex subvolcanic magma plumbing system of an alkali basaltic maar-diatreme volcano (Elie Ness, Fife, Scotland)"
(PDF)
.
Lithos
.
264
: 70?85.
doi
:
10.1016/j.lithos.2016.08.001
. Retrieved
16 September
2022
.
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"What lies beneath a volcano? New images reveal all..."
13 October 2020
. Retrieved
24 November
2023
.
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"Eshaness Coast, Shetland: A blast from the past"
.
Scottish Geology
. Retrieved
2 May
2021
.
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"Peniel Heugh"
.
Geology North
. Retrieved
23 March
2021
.
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Hamilton MA, Pearson DG, Thompson RN, Kelly SP, Emeleus CH (1998) Rapid eruption of Skye lavas inferred from precise U-Pb and Ar-Ar dating of the Rum and Cuillin plutonic complexes. Nature 394: 260-263
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"Put a cork in it"
. Geocaching.com
. Retrieved
9 September
2014
.
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BBC website
Archived
August 29, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine