Incapillo Volcano
Updated: Apr 29, 2024 10:07 GMT -
Caldera 5750 m / 18865 ft
Argentina, -27.9°S / -68.8°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Argentina, -27.9°S / -68.8°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Incapillo volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
The Plio-Pleistocene Icapillo caldera and lava-dome complex is the southernmost ignimbritic caldera of the Central Andes. The 5 x 6 km wide caldera formed during a rhyodacitic eruption about 510,000 years ago. About 40 rhyodacitic lava domes surround the caldera.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information