Calabozos
Sign in to saveCalabozos is a Holocene caldera in central Chile's Maule Region (7th Region). Part of the Chilean Andes' volcanic segment, it is considered a member of the Southern Volcanic Zone (SVZ), one of the three distinct volcanic belts of South America. This most active section of the Andes runs along central Chile's western edge, and includes more than 70 of Chile's stratovolcanoes and volcanic fields. Calabozos lies in an extremely remote area of poorly glaciated mountains.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Calabozos
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 3508
- Mountain.range
- Andes
- Mountain.location
- Central Chile
- Mountain.map
- Chile
- Mountain.relief
- 1
- Mountain.map_alt
- Calabozos is located in East-central Chile, which lies on the southwestern coast of South America.
- Mountain.map_caption
- The South American country of Chile
- Mountain.map_width
- 200
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.type
- Caldera
- Mountain.age
- Pleistocene
- Mountain.volcanic_belt
- Andean Volcanic Belt
- Mountain.last_eruption
- Unknown
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Calabozos is a Holocene caldera in central Chile's Maule Region (7th Region). Part of the Chilean Andes' volcanic segment, it is considered a member of the Southern Volcanic Zone (SVZ), one of the three distinct volcanic belts of South America. This most active section of the Andes runs along central Chile's western edge, and includes more than 70 of Chile's stratovolcanoes and volcanic fields. Calabozos lies in an extremely remote area of poorly glaciated mountains.
Calabozos and the majority of the Andean volcanoes formed from the subduction of the oceanic Nazca Plate under the continental South American continental lithosphere. The caldera is in a transitional region between thick and thin lithosphere, and is probably supplied by a pool of andesitic and rhyolitic magma. It sits on a historic bed of volcanic and plutonic sedimentary rock (rock formed within the Earth) that in turn sits on top of a layer of merged sedimentary and metamorphic rock.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Calabozos” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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