Chile · Stratovolcano
Callaqui
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Elevation
- 3099m
- Last eruption
- 1980
- Type
- Stratovolcano
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- South America / Southern Andean Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 3099m
- Coordinates
- -37.928, -71.446
- Last eruption
- 1980
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Composite
- Major rock type
- Andesite / Basaltic andesite
Geological summary
The late-Pleistocene to Holocene Callaqui stratovolcano has a profile of an overturned canoe, due to its construction along an 11-km-long, SW-NE fissure above a 1.2-0.3 million year old Pleistocene edifice.
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From Wikipedia
Callaqui is a stratovolcano located in the Bío Bío Region of Chile. It is a large ice-capped, basaltic andesite volcano which is elongated in the northeast-southwest direction, due to its construction along an 11 km (7 mi) long fissure. Numerous cinder cones and lava flows have erupted from vents along this linear fissure. Most of the activity at Callaqui has been fumarolic. Minor eruptions were reported 1751, 1864, and 1937, and the latest eruption was a small phreatic eruption in 1980.
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Eruption history
6 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 2
- Uncertain eruptions
- 4
- Span of confirmed record
- 1751 – 1980
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 2 (1751)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 1
Detailed timeline
- 2012VEI ?Observed2012-01-02 – 2012-01-02
- 2009VEI ?Method not stated2009-01-22 – 2009-01-22
- 1980VEI 1Observed1980-10-16 – 1980-10-16
- 1937VEI ?Method not stated1937-09-18 – end unknown
- 1864VEI ?Method not stated1864-10-16 – end unknown
- 1751VEI 2Observed1751-12-31 – end unknown
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