The "modern stage" of this evolution has set up most of the actual mount Pelée cone, with pumice and pyroclastic flows deposits. More than 30 eruptions have been identified during the last 5 000 years of the volcano's activity.

 

 

 

3, 000 years ago, following a large pumice eruption, the Etang Sec caldera was then formed.

 

 

 

The 1902 eruption took place within the Etang Sec crater. This eruption produced many pyroclastic flows and formed a dome which filled the caldera.

 

 

 

The following eruption in 1929 formed a second dome in the Etang Sec caldera, and produced pyroclastic flows directed in the Blanche river valley. This last eruption is mainly responsible for the current morphology of mount Pelée.