Flores

sopka – Volcanic field, Guatemala, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Kde

Guatemala, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Volcanic field

Nadmořská výška

1 600 m

Tektonické prostředí

Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

14,308°, -89,992°

Volcán de Flores is one of the largest of a cluster of small stratovolcanoes located in SE Guatemala behind the volcanic front. Also known as Volcán Amayo, it lies ~10 km W of the city of Jutiapa, at the SW end of the SE Guatemala volcanic platform. The summit rises ~600 m above a basement of Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentary rocks and contains a shallow crater breached on its eastern side. Satellitic cones occur at the southern and eastern base of the dominantly basaltic volcano, and youthful lava flows occur at the NE base, near El Aguacite.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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