Camargo Volcanic Field Volcano
Updated: 24 Απριλίου 2024 17:46 GMT -
Pyroclastic cone(s) 1900 m / 6234 ft
Mexico, 27.75°N / -104.42°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Mexico, 27.75°N / -104.42°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Camargo Volcanic Field volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
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Background
The Camargo volcanic field is located in the northern Bolsón de Mapimí graben in north-central México, about 150 km SW of Big Bend National Park in Texas. More than 300 volcanic vents, mostly cinder cones and lava cones, are located in a broad 2500 km2 lava plateau that extends 60 km E-W and 70 km N-S. It is mostly Pliocene in age, but an early Pleistocene age of 1.43 +/- 0.05 Ma was obtained on one sample. The best-studied vent of the field is 1.63 Ma Cerro el Salto (also known as La Olivina), a cinder cone whose spinel-lherzolite xenoliths were once mined for peridot.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information