Los Volcanes Volcano
Updated: Mar 29, 2024 08:09 GMT -
Volcanic field 2080 m / 6824 ft
Mexico, 20.33°N / -104.5°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
Mexico, 20.33°N / -104.5°W
Current status: (probably) extinct (0 out of 5)
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Los Volcanes volcano eruptions: None during the past 10,000 years
Less than few million years ago (Pleistocene)
Latest nearby earthquakes
Background
A mostly Pliocene volcanic field is located near the town of Los Volcanes, at the southern end of the Atenguillo graben in the Jalisco tectonic block of western México. The 285 km2 field consists of lava cones and flat-topped flows overlying Cretaceous ignimbrites. The youngest products are earliest Pleistocene in age (Potassium-Argon date of 1.56 Ma). The extensional tectonic setting, in a graben of the Jalisco block, has resulted in the eruption of a wide variety of lava types, ranging from potassic minettes and leucitites to calc-alkaline basalts and andesites.---
Source: Smithsonian / GVP volcano information
Los Volcanes Volcano Photos
Volcanic cone of Los volcanes de Aridane, next of town Todoque, La Palma Isl. (Photo: WNomad)