San Jacinto, Cerro

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

Kde

Nicaragua, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

300 m

Poloha

12,370°, -86,020°

Cerro San Jacinto, also known as Cerro San Jacinto Viejo, is a small stratovolcano constructed along the eastern margin of the Nicaraguan central graben east of Lake Managua. A large central depression is surrounded on the north and east by a ridge, which is a remnant of an open caldera rim. Though considered to be of possible Holocene age on the basis of youthful morphology (McBirney and Williams, 1965), the volcano is highly dissected relative to the Holocene volcanoes across the Nicaraguan depression to the west. Van Wyk de Vries (1999, pers. comm.) noted that the volcano is substantially older than nearby Las Lajas volcano and is of probable early Pleistocene age.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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