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unnamed volcano

pyroclastic cone unknown
Northern Chile, Bolivia and Argentina, South America, -25.1°S / -68.27°W
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5)
Typical eruption style: effusive
unnamed volcano eruptions: unknown
An unnamed isolated basaltic-andesite cinder cone is located between the Corrida de Cori range on the Chile/Argentina border and the Salar Río Grande in Argentina.
The cone sits on top of Miocene ignimbrites and lava flows. It has erupted relatively fluid blocky lava flows that form a broad lobe to the SE and a narrow tongue to the east nearly to the Salar Río Grande. A second smaller vent lies about 800 m NW of the cinder cone. The age of the lava flows with surficial breadcrust textures could be Holocene.
(Smithsonian / GVP volcano information)