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Incapillo volcano

Updated: Aug 16, 2022 03:23 GMT - Refresh

Caldera 5750 m / 18865 ft
Argentina, -27.9°S / -68.8°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)

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Typical eruption style: unspecified
Incapillo volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Lastest nearby earthquakes: No recent earthquakes

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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.
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information

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