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Carrán-Los Venados

Carran-Los Venados

Pyroclastic cone · Chile · 1114m

An ash plume rises from Volcan Mirador, a pyroclastic cone that formed during an eruption in 1979. The Carran-Los Venados volcano group includes about 50 scoria cones, maars, and a small stratovolcano that are broadly aligned along a 17-km-long ENE-WSW trend. The volcano group occupies a low-lying area north of the Cordón Caulle-Pueyhue volcanic chain. In addition to the 1979 Mirador scoria cone, two maars, Rininahue and Carran, were formed during eruptions in the 20th century.
An ash plume rises from Volcan Mirador, a pyroclastic cone that formed during an eruption in 1979. The Carran-Los Venados volcano group includes about 50 scoria cones, maars, and a small stratovolcano that are broadly aligned along a 17-km-long ENE-WSW trend. The volcano group occupies a low-lying area north of the Cordón Caulle-Pueyhue volcanic chain. In addition to the 1979 Mirador scoria cone, two maars, Rininahue and Carran, were formed during eruptions in the 20th century. · Photo: Photo by Hugo Moreno, 1979 (University of Chile). · Wikimedia Commons
Type
Pyroclastic cone
Country
Chile
Region
South America Volcanic Regions / Southern Andean Volcanic Arc
Elevation
1114m
Coordinates
-40.350, -72.070
Last eruption
1979
Tectonic setting
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Landform
Cluster
Major rock type
Basalt / Picro-Basalt
Geological summary

The Carrán-Los Venados volcano group includes about 50 basaltic to basaltic andesite scoria cones, maars, and a small stratovolcano that are broadly aligned along a 17-km-long ENE-WSW trend ESE of Lago Ranco. The volcanic features occupy a low-lying area N of the more topographically prominent Puyehue-Cordón Caulle volcanic chain, and many of the vents are postglacial in age. The Mirador scoria cone and two maars, Riñinahue and Carrán, were formed during eruptions in the 20th century. These historical eruptions were concentrated where the regional Liquine-Ofqui fault zone intersects the alignment of volcanic vents.

From Wikipedia

Carrán-Los Venados is a volcanic group of scoria cones, maars and small stratovolcanoes in southern Chile, southeast of Ranco Lake. The highest cone is Los Guindos, 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.

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Eruption history

Summary (VEI over time)
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1907~1914 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 31950~1957 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 41972~1979 · 1 eruptions · max VEI 219071921194319571972

Detailed timeline

  1. 1979VEI 2Observed
    1979-04-14 – 1979-05-20
    Mirador
  2. 1955VEI 4Observed
    1955-07-27 – 1955-11-12
    Carrán Maar
  3. 1907VEI 3Observed
    1907-04-09 – 1908-02
    Riñinahue Maar

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