Mentolat

News

no news in this list.

Mentolat volcano

stratovolcano 1660 m / 5,446 ft
Southern Chile and Argentina, South America, -44.7°S / -73.08°W
Current status: dormant (1 out of 5)

[hide map] [enlarge map]

Typical eruption style: explosive
Mentolat volcano eruptions: 1710 ± 5, 5010 BC ± 50 years
Last earthquakes nearby: No recent earthquakes

Time

Mag. / Depth

Distance

Location

Volcán Mentolat is an active stratovolcano southern Chile located in the central part of Magdalena Island across the Puyuhuapi strait from Puerto Cisnes. The volcano has an ice-filled, 6 km wide caldera.
The most recent eruption at Mentolat volcano was around the year 1710. It may have produced a prominent young andesitic lava flow on the western slope of the volcano.
An explosive eruption about 7000 years ago produced a wide-spread pumice and scoria layer that extends to the SE.

Click here to tell a friend about this page!

Copyrights: VolcanoDiscovery.
Use of material: Text and images on this webpage are copyrighted. Further reproduction and use without authorization is not consented. If you need licensing rights for photographs, for example for publications and commercial use, please contact us.