Chile · Argentina · Complex volcano
Cerro Bayo Complex
Bayo Gorbea, Cerro
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Elevation
- 5413m
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Type
- Complex volcano
- Country
- Chile · Argentina
- Region
- South America / Central Andean Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 5413m
- Coordinates
- -25.414, -68.588
- Last eruption
- Unknown
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary
Cerro Bayo is a complex volcano of partial Holocene age located along the Chile-Argentina border. An older center to the south contains a poorly preserved, 800-m-wide crater.
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From Wikipedia
Cerro Bayo is a complex volcano on the northern part border between Argentina and Chile. It consists of four overlapping stratovolcanoes along a north–south line. The main volcano face is located on the Argentine side, thought the summit of the complex is just west of the border, in Chile. The volcano is about 800,000 years old, but it is associated with ongoing ground uplift encompassing also the more northerly Lastarria and Cordón del Azufre volcanoes. The 5,401-metre (17,720 ft) high summit is the source of two viscous dacitic lava flows with prominent levees that traveled to the north.
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Eruption history
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No eruption records available.
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