Chingo

sopka – Stratovolcano, Guatemala-El Salvador, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Kde

Guatemala-El Salvador, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

1 775 m

Tektonické prostředí

Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poloha

14,120°, -89,730°

Volcán Chingo is a symmetrical stratovolcano that straddles the Guatemala/El Salvador border. A shallow, oval-shaped summit crater is breached on the W side. Other small stratovolcanoes and cinder cones are located on both sides of the volcano along a major N-S-trending fault. Youthful cones, such as Cerro de Olla, lie across the Salvadorian border to the S. To the N in Guatemala, Volcán las Viboras, a cinder cone that caps a basaltic shield volcano, is the most prominent of several fault-controlled cones near Laguna Atescatempo. Flank fissures have fed many youthful lava flows, particularly on the W flank of Chingo and the N flank of Volcán las Viboras.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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