Melimoyu

sopka – Stratovolcano, Chile, South America Volcanic Regions

Kde

Chile, South America Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Stratovolcano

Nadmořská výška

2 400 m

Tektonické prostředí

Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)

Poslední známá erupce

200

Poloha

-44,080°, -72,880°

Melimoyu is a stratovolcano with an 8-km-wide, largely buried caldera located ~40 km NW of the town of Puyuhuapi. The ice-filled caldera is drained by a glacier through a notch in the NE caldera rim. The basaltic andesite volcano is elongated 10 km in an E-W direction and has several cinder cones. A 1-km-wide crater is located at its summit, and two late-Holocene tephra layers have been documented.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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