Mercedes, Cerro las

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

Kde

Costa Rica, Middle America-Caribbean Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Pyroclastic cone

Nadmořská výška

190 m

Poloha

10,970°, -84,350°

Cerro las Mercedes (also known as Cono Mercedes) is a cinder cone of late-Pleistocene age that lies along the Caribbean coastal plain near the border with Nicaragua. The cone lies just west of the Río San Juan near the point where the Costa Rica-Nicaragua border no longer follows the Río San Juan and extends westward south of the river. Leucite-bearing bombs and lapilli of potassic alkaline basaltic composition cover an area of about 1 km2.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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