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The Quill

Netherlands Antilles / Sint Eustatius / Mountain /
 park, volcano, national park

The Quill National Park is the 800m wide open central crater of a volcano - a simple young stratovolcano with flanks that sweep up to angles of 50 degrees at the crater rim. The crater floor is at an elevation of 278m and the highest point on the crater rim is at 600m. The crater has a prominent breach or low point on the western side beneath which a prominent pyroclastic flow fan is directed to the west coast. The subaerial flanks of the Quill have been largely removed by erosion except where they form a platform linking northwest to the Northern Centers. The Quill, apart from a few lava dome remnants exposed in the inner walls of the crater is almost entirely a pyroclastic volcano and the seacliffs cut into the flank deposits reveal some of the best pyroclastic sections in the Lesser Antilless. These are accessible by walking along the beaches.
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Coordinates:   17°28'45"N   62°57'42"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago