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Nevado San Francisco volcano

Stratovolcano 6018 m / 19744 ft
Northern Chile / Argentina border, -26.92°S / -68.26°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5) | Reports
Nevado San Francisco volcano books
Typical eruption style: unspecified
Nevado San Francisco volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene) No recent earthquakes
TimeMag. / DepthDistanceLocation

Background:

San Francisco volcano has K-Ar dates of 1.34 and 1.32 million years ago (Gonzalez-Ferran, 1995).
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Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information


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