My neighbor's school class is discussing the volcano at Monserrat and the kids want to about the volcano we are sitting on here in Bermuda. The question is: is our volcano dead and extinct or is it dormant. I recall that it is dowmant -- activity not even in the question -- as the satelite looking for heat sources a decade ago found heat inder the Bermuda Rise. No one at the Bermuda Station for Biological Research seemed to have a ready answer. Do you? THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Dennis and students

I am not finding specific info about the geology of Bermuda but I can tell you a few things. Bermuda is not listed with the woerld active volcanoes which means there has not been any eruption in the last 10,000 years. Bermuda is not near a plate tectonic boundary which means there is no mechnaism to generate magma to feed volcanoes. I'd guess Bermuda is an old oceanic volcano probably made at the nmid-Atlantic Ridge some tens of millions of years ago.

Sincerely,
Steve Mattox

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