Izopo, Montaña de

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

Kde

Honduras, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Shield(s)

Nadmořská výška

2 020 m

Poloha

13,920°, -87,150°

Montaña de Izopo, a small basaltic shield volcano located about 20 km SE of the capital city of Tegucigalpa, is the highest Quaternary volcano in Honduras. The 2020-m-high volcano rises only 200 m above its base and was constructed along a NE-trending line parallel to the high fault scarps bordering the Zamorano valley. More extensive basaltic lavas were erupted at Santa Elena along this same NE-trending line. Other basaltic lava flows were erupted farther to the NE near Joya Grande and from other parallel NE-trending faults to the east.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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