Cerro de la Niebla volcano

Compound 4500 m / 14764 ft
Northern Chile, -25.25°S / -68.63°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Cerro de la Niebla volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)

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Cerro de la Niebla is a compound volcano of possible Pleistocene age (de Silva, 2007 pers. comm.).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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