Chile · Pyroclastic cone
Carrán-Los Venados
Carran-Los Venados
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone
- Elevation
- 1114m
- Last eruption
- 1979
- Type
- Pyroclastic cone
- Country
- Chile
- Region
- South America / Southern Andean Volcanic Arc
- Elevation
- 1114m
- Coordinates
- -40.350, -72.070
- Last eruption
- 1979
- Tectonic setting
- Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
- Landform
- Cluster
- Major rock type
- Basalt / Picro-basalt
Geological summary
The Carrán-Los Venados volcano group includes about 50 basaltic to basaltic andesite scoria cones, maars, and a small stratovolcano that are broadly aligned along a 17-km-long ENE-WSW trend ESE of Lago Ranco.
Excerpt from the Global Volcanism Program, Smithsonian Institution · Read the full summary on GVP →
From Wikipedia
Carrán-Los Venados is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes in southern Chile, southeast of Ranco Lake. The highest cone is Los Guindos, which is a small stratovolcano with an elevation of 1,114 metres (3,655 ft). The volcanic group has recorded eruptions from 1955 and 1979. Located south of Maihue Lake and north Puyehue Volcano Carrán-Los Venados group is placed at the intersection of several faults on the thin crust (~30 km) of southern Chile, among them Liquiñe-Ofqui and Futrono Fault.
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA · Read full article →
Eruption history
3 recordedGlossaryRecord summary
- Confirmed eruptions
- 3
- Uncertain eruptions
- 0
- Span of confirmed record
- 1907 – 1979
- Largest confirmed eruption
- VEI 4 (1955)
- Confirmed eruptions since 1900
- 3
Detailed timeline
- 1979VEI 2Observed1979-04-14 – 1979-05-20Mirador
- 1955VEI 4Observed1955-07-27 – 1955-11-12Carrán Maar
- 1907VEI 3Observed1907-04-09 – 1908-02-16Riñinahue Maar
Nearby volcanoes
External links
⚠ For reference only. Not for emergency response.