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Coatepeque Caldera

Type
Caldera
Elevation
746m
Last eruption
Unknown
Coatepeque Caldera
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Type
Caldera
Country
El Salvador
Region
Middle America & Caribbean / Central America Volcanic Arc
Elevation
746m
Coordinates
13.870, -89.550
Last eruption
Unknown
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Caldera
Major rock type
Rhyolite

Geological summary

Coatepeque is a 6.5 x 11.5 km collapse caldera ~50 km W of San Salvador that is largely occupied by a lake with hot springs near the margins.

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From Wikipedia

Coatepeque Caldera is a volcanic caldera in El Salvador in Central America. The caldera was formed during a series of rhyolitic explosive eruptions from a group of stratovolcanoes between about 72,000 and 57,000 years ago. Since then, basaltic cinder cones and lava flows formed near the west edge of the caldera, and six rhyodacitic lava domes have formed. The youngest dome, Cerro Pacho, formed after 8000 BC.

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Eruption history

Glossary

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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