 Jailbalito, one of the many little Maya villages and towns around the shores of Lake Atitlán (Photo:...
 A bright eruption from the NW vent, which as usual is more ash-rich than the NE or central vents. (P...
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Antofagasta de la Sierra
Volcano
Antofagasta de la Sierra is a young volcanic field in Catamarca, NW Argentina, located SW of Beltran volcano and between the Salar de Antofalla on the west and the massive Cerro Galán caldera on the east.
The field contains some of the youngest volcanic vents of vents of the Argentinian Puna region. It contains young looking basaltic-andesite scoria cones and recent-looking lava flows, which could be only a few thousand years old.
Nearby Salar de Antofalla volcanic field contains scoria cones and lava flows east of the NE-SW-trending Salar de Antofalla. It, too, looks young, but no precise ages are known.
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Volcano type |
volcanic field dormant |
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Location |
Izu Islands, Japan, 31.44°N / 140.05°E |
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Summit elevation |
4000? m / 13,123 ft |
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Antofagasta de la Sierra volcano eruptions |
a few thousand years ago |
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Typical eruption style |
effusive |
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