Guazapa

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

Kde

El Salvador, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

1 438 m

Poloha

13,900°, -89,120°

Guazapa is a massive, eroded Pleistocene stratovolcano ~20 km NNE of the city of San Salvador. The basaltic volcano has no trace of its original summit crater, and deep canyons cut its flanks. Several pyroclastic cones and lava flows of similar composition found at the base of the volcano were thought to be Holocene by Williams and Meyer-Abich (1955). The Macanze scoria cone, ~4 km SE from the base of the edifice, was considered to have probably been active only a few thousand years ago; however, Weber and Wiesemann (1978) did not map Holocene vents in this area.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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