Volcanoes of Catalonia

mountain in Catalonia, Spain

natural park in Catalonia, Spain

The Croscat () is a volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. It is both the youngest and highest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, with the last eruption dated back to about 14,000 years Before Present. The volcanic cone has a horseshoe shape, and its northeastern flank was quarried for volcanic gravel until the early 1990s, exposing the internal structure of the cone from top to bottom. The volcano is located in the Garrotxa volcanic field, a Quaternary volcanic field also known as Olot volcanic field, as part of the protected area of the Zona Volcànica de la Garrotxa Natural Par

mountain in Spain

thumb|One of the tossols we can visit in the Fageda d'en Jordà, Garrotxa. Tossol is a Catalan word (hillock) used to refer to protuberances that form in lava flows and that when the lava cools become small hills. In the Jordà beech forest (in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park, in Catalonia, Spain) there are more than 50 tossols (spatter cones) formed by the interaction between lava flows and pre-existing wetlands that, when covered by lava at more than 1000 °C, boiled with large bubbles that raised and deformed the flow forming the tossols. These in the Garrotxa Volcanic Zone are fo