Siete Orejas

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Guatemala, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Kde

Guatemala, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

3 370 m

Poloha

14,820°, -91,620°

Siete Orejas is an andesitic stratovolcano with a large caldera breached to the south. The volcano overlooks Quetzaltenango, Guatemala's second largest city. A broad irregular summit profile gives the volcano its name, which means "Seven Ears." The latest eruption produced a widespread airfall pumice and pyroclastic-flow deposit that is stratigraphically constrained to between 126,000 and 85,000 years ago. Volcán Chicabal, immediately to the west, was constructed within a 4-km-wide breached scarp of unknown origin; the age of this stratovolcano is unknown, but it has a well-preserved summit crater containing a crater lake.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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