Talk:Somma volcano

Terminology differences?
I just started this article. When I was looking at various web sources listing volcanoes, I was surprised to find that all volcanoes listed as "somma volcanoes" were either on the Kamchatka Peninsula or the Kuril Islands. Certainly there are somma volcanoes in other parts of the world (like Vesuvius, maybe?), but these are all listed as "stratovolcano" with a note that there is an associated somma. I think what is really going on here is aggregation of data from researchers with different terminological habits. Whoever it was that supervised the field work on Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands liked to use the phrase "somma volcano" much more than anyone else did.

If this is true, then my statement that "a number of the world's best examples of somma volcanoes are found on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula and the Kuril Islands" is midly iffy. However, I can't claim sufficient expertise to settle this question.

&mdash; Nowhither 19:24, 26 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Vesuivius is the prototype for somma volcanoes; it did give the name to the type after all. CFLeon 01:55, 10 April 2006 (UTC)