Acatlan Volcanic Field Volcano
Updated: Apr 23, 2024 13:31 GMT -
Caldera 1990 m / 6529 ft
Mexico, 20.45°N / -103.57°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Mexico, 20.45°N / -103.57°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Acatlan Volcanic Field volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
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Background
The Acatlán volcanic field, located SW of La Primavera caldera, is a group of andesitic cones, rhyolitic lava domes, and lava flows associated with a caldera system. The Acatlán Ignimbrite is a compositionally zoned rhyolitic-to-andesitic tuff that covers an area of about 150 km2. The ignimbrite overlies andesitic breccias dated at 0.65 million years. Following eruption of the ignimbrite, a series of rhyolitic and dacitic lava domes and andesitic cinder cones and lava flows were erupted throughout the Acatlán volcanic field.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information