Nevado del Tolima

Nevado del Tolima
Nevado del Tolima in 1985
Elevation	5,276 metres (17,303 feet)[1]
Listing	List of volcanoes in Colombia
Location
Location	Tolima Department, Colombia
Range	Cordillera Central
Coordinates	4°40′N 75°20′W / 4.667°N 75.333°W / 4.667; -75.333Coordinates: 4°40′N 75°20′W / 4.667°N 75.333°W / 4.667; -75.333[1]
Geology
Type	Stratovolcano
Volcanic arc/belt	Andean Volcanic Belt
Last eruption	March 1943[1]

Nevado del Huila

Nevado del Ruiz

Nevado del Tolima

Puracé

Doña Juana

Galeras

Major volcanoes in Colombia.

Nevado del Tolima is a stratovolcano located in Tolima Department, Colombia, south of Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

The steep-sided, glacier-clad Nevado del Tolima volcano contrasts with the broad profile of Nevado del Ruiz volcano to the north. The andesitic-dacitic younger Tolima volcano formed during the past 40,000 years, rising above and largely obscuring a 3-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera. The summit consists of a cluster of late-Pleistocene to Holocene lava domes that were associated with thick block-lava flows on the northern and eastern flanks and extensive pyroclastic-flow deposits. The summit contains a funnel-shaped crater 200–300 m deep.^[1] This crater is quite recent and was not present in December 1926. <"El Grafico" 19 February 1927 no. 819 page 714 first column at the bottom>

Holocene activity has included explosive eruptions ranging in size from moderate to plinian. The last major eruption took place about 3600 years ago. Lava dome growth has produced block-and-ash flows that traveled primarily to the NE and SE. Minor explosive eruptions have been recorded from Tolima in the 19th and 20th centuries.^[1]

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