Chile · Estratovolcán
Cerro Melimoyu
Melimoyu
- Tipo
- Estratovolcán
- Altitud
- 2400 m
- Última erupción
- 200
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- Tipo
- Estratovolcán
- País
- Chile
- Región
- América del Sur / Southern Andean Volcanic Arc
- Altitud
- 2400 m
- Coordenadas
- -44.080, -72.880
- Última erupción
- 200
- Contexto tectónico
- Zona de subducción / Corteza continental (> 25 km)
- Forma volcánica
- Compuesto
- Roca principal
- Andesita / Andesita basáltica
Resumen geológico
Melimoyu is a stratovolcano with an 8-km-wide, largely buried caldera located ~40 km NW of the town of Puyuhuapi. The ice-filled caldera is drained by a glacier through a notch in the NE caldera rim. The basaltic andesite volcano is elongated 10 km in an E-W direction and has several cinder cones. A 1-km-wide crater is located at its summit, and two late-Holocene tephra layers have been documented.
Resumen de Wikipedia
Resumen en inglésMelimoyu is a stratovolcano in Chile. It is an elongated volcanic complex that contains two nested calderas of 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) width. An ice cap has developed on the volcano with a couple of outlet glaciers. Melimoyu has not erupted in recent times, but during the Holocene two large eruptions took place and ejected ash at large distances from the volcano.
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Historial de erupciones
2 registradasGlosarioLínea de tiempo detallada
- 200 (±75 años)VEI ?Estimación geológica200 – fin desconocido
- 820 a. C. (±100 años)VEI ?Estimación geológica820 a. C. – fin desconocido
Volcanes cercanos
Enlaces externos
⚠ Solo como referencia. No apto para respuesta ante emergencias.