Descabezado Grande
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| Elevation | 3,953 metres (12,969 feet) |
| Location | Central Chile |
| Range | Andes |
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| Type | Stratovolcano |
| Age of rock | Pleistocene |
| Last eruption | 1933 |
Descabezado Grande is a stratovolcano located in the Maule Region of central Chile. It is capped by a 1.4 kilometres (0.9 mi) wide ice-filled caldera and named for its flat-topped form, as descabezado means "headless" in Spanish. A smaller crater about 0.5 kilometres (0.3 mi) wide is found in the northeast part of the caldera, and it has active fumaroles.
The volcano is composed of andesite and rhyodacite lava flows along with pyroclastic flow deposits. It has a basal diameter of about 10 x 12 km ( 6 x 8 mi) and a total volume of about 30 km³ (7 cu mi). Along with Cerro Azul, only 7 km to the south, it lies at the center of a 20 x 30 km (12 x 20 mi) volcanic field.
[edit] References
- Global Volcanism Program: Descabezado Grande
- González-Ferrán, Oscar (1995). Volcanes de Chile. Santiago, Chile: Instituto Geográfico Militar, 640 pp. ISBN 956-202-054-1. (in Spanish; also includes volcanoes of Argentina, Bolivia, and Peru)
- Biggar, John (2005). The Andes: A Guide for Climbers (3rd ed.). Andes Publishing (Scotland), 304 pp. ISBN 0-9536087-2-7.
