El Pedregal volcano
Shield 1593 m / 5226 ft
Honduras, 14.1°N / -87.27°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
El Pedregal volcano books
Honduras, 14.1°N / -87.27°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
El Pedregal volcano books
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Typical eruption style: unspecified
El Pedregal volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
El Pedregal volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background:
El Pedregal, the most prominent Quaternary volcano in the highlands of central Honduras, is a low-angle basaltic shield volcano constructed on a high plateau of Miocene ignimbrites immediately west of the capital city of Tegucigalpa. A small ephemeral pond occupies a saucer-shaped summit depression. Isolated remnants of basaltic lava flows from El Pedregal and separate vents occur over broad areas primarily to the west, but NW nearly to the village of Zambrano. A small cone near Matasano produced reddish scoria during the only pyroclastic eruption in the Quaternary volcanic fields near Tegucigalpa.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
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