Santa Ana (Santa Ana, El Salvador)
Santa Ana volcano, El Salvador
| Volcano: | Santa Ana (see Santa Ana at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Soil Diffuse Emission |
| Description: | The Santa Ana–Izalco–Coatepeque volcanic complex consists of the Coatepeque collapse caldera and the Santa Ana and Izalco volcanoes, as well as numerous cinder cones and explosion craters.Hot springs, gas bubbling, and intense fumarolic emissions are observed along the shoreline of this crater lake. The crater and upper fl anks of the Santa Ana volcano show thin phreatomagmatic tephra deposits that act as impermeable barriers to vertical gas migration. |
Point of contact for this site:
José M.L. Salazar, xxx (Environmental Research Division, Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables )
Bibliographic references for this site
Salazar J.M.L., P.A. Hernández, N.M. Pérez, R. Olmos, F. Barahona, R. Cartagena, T. Soriano, D.L. López, H. Sumino, K. Notsu, 2004,Spatial and temporal variation of diffuse CO2 degassing at the Santa Ana–Izalco–Coatepeque volcanic complex, El Salvador, Central America, Geol. Soc. Am. Spec. Pap., vol.375, pp. 135–146
