Utila Volcanic Center

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

Kde

Honduras, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Pyroclastic cone(s)

Nadmořská výška

51 m

Poloha

16,113°, -86,888°

Located in the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of Honduras, the Utila Volcanic Center is described by Kepezhinskas et al. (2020) as a monogenetic volcano in the Central American Volcanic Arc back-arc region, where a single eruption (less than 200,000 years BP) produced a suite of basaltic lavas and palagonite lapilli tuff that contain kaersutite-bearing gabbroic xenoliths. Although McBirney and Bass (1969) described the basaltic rocks on the eastern end of the island as Holocene, the timing of the eruption is uncertain. Both Calibri (also called Stuert or Stuart) Hill and Pumpkin Hill are tuff cones within an area of basaltic lava flows (Kepezhinskas et al., 2020).

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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