Cerro Solo

Solo, El

Stratovolcano · Chile-Argentina · 6205m

Light-colored rhyodacitic pyroclastic-flow deposits blanket El Solo volcano in the Ojos del Salado area. Snow partially mantles the summit of El Solo, a stratovolcano composed of nine eruptive centers located west of Nevados del Ojos de Salado and SE of Tres Cruces volcano. The 6190-m-high El Solo volcano was the source of major pyroclastic-flow deposits erupted during the Holocene that thickly fill adjacent valleys. · Photo: Photo courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile). · Wikimedia Commons

Type: Stratovolcano
Country: Chile-Argentina
Region: South America Volcanic Regions / Central Andean Volcanic Arc
Elevation: 6205m
Coordinates: -27.105, -68.713
Last eruption: Unknown
Tectonic setting: Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform: Composite
Major rock type: Dacite

Geological summary

El Solo is large stratovolcano composed of nine eruptive centers located west of Nevados del Ojos de Salado and SE of Tres Cruces volcano. The 6205-m-high volcano was the source of major rhyodacitic pyroclastic-flow deposits erupted during the Holocene that thickly fill adjacent valleys (González-Ferrán, 1995).

From Wikipedia

Cerro Solo is a large stratovolcano on the border between Argentina and Chile, west of Ojos del Salado with an elevation of 6,215 metres (20,390 ft) metres. It consists of nine eruptive centers and is covered in light-colored rhyodacite pyroclastic flow deposits.

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Eruption history

Detailed timeline

No eruption records available.

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