Volcanological evolution of Montagne Pelée (Martinique): A textbook case of alternating Plinian and dome-forming eruptions

Montagne Pelée is one of the most active volcanoes of the Lesser Antilles arc, with two to three magmatic eruptions per millennium and an estimated magmatic production rate in the order of 0.7 km3/1000 years. Montagne Pelée is also infamous for the very large number of people (30000) killed by an eruptive phenomenon at the onset of the 1902–1905 dome-forming eruption. Active for ~550 kyrs, Montagne Pelée has undergone two major flank collapses...