Mentolat
Sign in to saveMentolat is an ice-filled, wide caldera in the central portion of Magdalena Island, Aisén Province, Chilean Patagonia. This caldera sits on top of a stratovolcano which has generated lava flows and pyroclastic flows. The caldera is filled with a glacier.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- stratovolcano
- Country
- Chile
- Located in
- Aysén Province
- Elevation
- 1620
- Material used
- andesite
- Image
- Mentolat-volcano-from-nw chile-aysen-region.jpg
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- topographic prominence
- 1620
- volcano observatory
- Southern Andean Volcano Observatory
- mountain range
- Patagonian Andes
- located in/on physical feature
- Magdalena Island
- located in protected area
- Isla Magdalena National Park
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Mentolat is an ice-filled, wide caldera in the central portion of Magdalena Island, Aisén Province, Chilean Patagonia. This caldera sits on top of a stratovolcano which has generated lava flows and pyroclastic flows. The caldera is filled with a glacier.
Little is known of the eruptive history of Mentolat, but it is thought to be young, with a possible eruption in the early 18th century that may have formed lava flows on the western slope. The earliest activity occurred during the Pleistocene, and Mentolat has had some major explosive eruptions during the Holocene.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mentolat” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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