Lascar (Antofagasta Region, Chile)
Lascar volcano in the light of the setting sun
| Volcano: | Lascar (see Lascar at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | Láscar volcano in northern Chile is the most active of the northern Chilean Andes. Lascar is an andesitic-to-dacitic stratovolcano with 3 overlapping summit craters. Lascar has had a number of small to moderate explosive eruptions in historic times, as well as a few larger eruptions that caused ashfall hundreds of kilometers away. |
Point of contact for this site:
Franco Tassi, franco.tassi@unifi.it (Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Lascar_07122012 | 7/12/2012 | Emanuela Bagnato | Oct. 1, 2014 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Tamburello G. , T. H. Hansteen, S. Bredemeyer, A. Aiuppa,F. Tassi, 2014,Gas emissions from five volcanoes in northern Chile and implications for the volatile budget of the Central Volcanic Zone, Geophysical Research Letters, vol.41, pp. 1-9, DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060653
