Cumbre Vieja (Canary Islands, Spain)

Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands

Volcano: Cumbre Vieja (see Cumbre Vieja at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab)
Type: Soil Diffuse Emission
Description: Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: Old Summit) is an active although dormant volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of Isla de La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain, that erupted twice in the 20th century – in 1949, and again in 1971.Nowadays, there are no visible gas emissions from fumaroles or hot springs at Cumbre Vieja. However, recent studies indicated that the main N-S volcanic rift of Cumbre Vieja represents an area of enhanced permeability for deep gas migration that is a preferential route for degassing, where significant amounts of non-reactive gases (helium) escape to the atmosphere


Point of contact for this site:
Eleazar Padrón, eleazar@iter.es (Environmental Research Division, ITER)

Number of measurements: 13
Measurement date (d/m/y) Added by Added on
Cumbre Vieja_010820101/8/2010 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820111/8/2011 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820121/8/2012 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820131/8/2013 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820021/8/2002 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820011/8/2001 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820031/8/2003 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820041/8/2004 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820051/8/2005 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820061/8/2006 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820071/8/2007 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820081/8/2008 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017
Cumbre Vieja_010820091/8/2009 Emanuela Bagnato Jan. 23, 2017


Bibliographic references for this site

Padrón Eleazar, Nemesio M. Pérez, Fátima Rodríguez, Gladys Melián, Pedro A. Hernández, Hirochika Sumino, Germán Padilla, José Barrancos, Samara Dionis, Kenji Notsu, David Calvo, 2015,Dynamics of diffuse carbon dioxide emissions from Cumbre Vieja volcano, La Palma, Canary Islands, Bullettin of Volcanology , vol.77, n.28, pp. 1-15, DOI: 10.1007/s00445-015-0914-2


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