Cerro Tujle

Tujle, Cerro

Maar · Chile · 3550 m

The small dot near the center of this Landsat image is the Cerro Tujle maar (also known as Cerro Tucle or Cerro Tugle). The Holocene maar has a 60-m-deep crater and is surrounded by a dark-colored ejecta blanket. The maar is located SE of the Salar de Atacama, north of Cerro Toloncha. · Foto: NASA Landsat image, 1999 (courtesy of Hawaii Synergy Project, Univ. of Hawaii Institute of Geophysics & Planetology).

Tipo: Maar
País: Chile
Región: South America Volcanic Regions / Central Andean Volcanic Arc
Altitud: 3550 m
Coordenadas: -23.830, -67.950
Última erupción: Desconocido
Contexto tectónico: Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Forma volcánica: Minor
Roca principal: No Data (checked)

Resumen geológico

The Cerro Tujle maar (also known as Cerro Tucle or Cerro Tugle) in the Cordón de Tujle has a 60-m-deep crater (de Silva and Francis, 1991). The maar is located SE of the Salar de Atacama, N of Cerro Toloncha.

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Resumen en inglés

Cerro Tujle is a mafic volcanic centre in the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, Chile. It forms a 60-metre-deep (200 ft) maar that may have formed half a million years ago. Its eruption products are aphyric. Previously in 1977, this crater has been identified as a meteor crater with diameters of 300 by 350 metres.

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