Mount Slamet 3428m

Indonesia / Jawa Tengah / Baturaden / Kab. Tegal dan Kab. Pemalang
 mountain, volcano, forest, stratovolcano, national park, animal sanctuary
Slamet, Java's second highest volcano at 3428 m and one of its most active, has a cluster of about three dozen cinder cones on its lower eastern flanks and a single cinder cone on the western flank. It is composed of two overlapping edifices, an older basaltic-andesite to andesitic volcano on the west and a younger basaltic to basaltic-andesite one on the east. Gunung Malang II cinder cone on the upper east flank on the younger edifice fed a lava flow that extends 6 km east. Four craters occur at the summit of Gunung Slamet, with activity migrating to the southwest over time. Historical eruptions, recorded since the 18th century, have originated from a 150-m-deep, 450-m-wide, steep-walled crater at the western part of the summit and have consisted of explosive eruptions generally lasting a few days to a few weeks.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Slamet
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Coordinates:   7°14'29"S   109°12'56"E

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