Rio Murta

sopka (bez známé erupce za posledních ~12 000 let), Chile, South America Volcanic Regions

Kde

Chile, South America Volcanic Regions

Typ (GVP)

Pyroclastic cone(s)

Nadmořská výška

681 m

Poloha

-46,170°, -72,708°

Basaltic lava flows were emplaced on valley floors along the Río Murta, about 30 km SE of Hudson volcano. The river follows a glacially carved valley cut into granitic rocks of the North Patagonian Batholith. The columnar-jointed lava flows include pillow lavas, lava tubes, and subglacial and sublacustral deposits. They have been considered to be of Holocene age due to lack of erosion and only locally subglacial emplacement. Guivel et al. (2005), however, found that two of three Potassium-Argon dates suggested an age of 850,000-900,00 years, but that a third sample too young to date precisely could be consistent with a Holocene age.

Text: Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program.

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