View Geology Of Mount Tambora Images. Mount tambora (or tamboro) is an active stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, on the island of sumbawa, indonesia. Sumbawa is flanked both to the north and south by oceanic crust, and tambora was formed by the active subduction zone beneath it.
Its eruption in 1815 is the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history and is considered one of the greatest natural disasters ever to befall mankind.
Mount tambora (8°14'41s, 117°59'35e) is an active volcano in indonesia. It is part of the ring of fire and also a part of a chain of volcanoes which lie on plate borders across indonesia. Surrounded on either side by oceanic crust 340km north of the java trench system,sometimes known as the mount tambora. Tambora is a stratovolcano , forming the sanggar peninsula of sumbawa island.