Carrán-Los Venados

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search
Carrán-Los Venados
File:Cerro-carran.jpg
Cerro Los Guindos (center) as seen from south; Mocho-Choshuenco volcano in left background
Highest point
Elevation Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (highest point)
Geography
Location Chile
Geology
Mountain type Pyroclastic cones, maars
Volcanic arc/belt Southern Volcanic Zone
Last eruption April to May 1979

Carrán-Los Venados (Spanish pronunciation: [kaˈran los βeˈnaðos]) is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes in southern Chile, southeast of Ranco Lake. The highest cone is Los Guindos (Spanish for "The Cherry Trees), 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.

Volcanoes

  • Carrán - a waterfilled maar, erupted in 1955 (also called "Nilahue")
  • Mirador - a cinder cone, erupted in 1979
  • Pocura - a water filled maar, unknown date of eruption
  • Riñinahue - a non-waterfilled maar, erupted in 1907
  • Volcanes Los Venados - the western and southern most group of volcanoes of Carrán-Los Venados group, unknown dates of eruption
  • Los Guindos - the tallest of the group, an extinct small stratocone

See also

References

  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Müller, G. and Veyl, G., 1957. The birth of Nilahue, a new maar type volcano at Rininahue, Chile, 20th International Geological Congress, Mexico, pp. 375–396.


<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>