Escalante (volcano)

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Escalante ("El Apagado")
View of the Escalante ("El Apagado") from the southwest

View of the Escalante ("El Apagado") from the southwest

height 5819  m
location Chile
Mountains To the
Coordinates 22 ° 36 '46 "  S , 67 ° 53' 2"  W Coordinates: 22 ° 36 '46 "  S , 67 ° 53' 2"  W.
Escalante (volcano) (Chile)
Escalante (volcano)
Type Stratovolcano

The Escalante , also known as " El Apagado ", is a stratovolcano in the Antofagasta Region (Region II) in the north of Chile ; it lies directly on the border with Bolivia in the Andes .

The Escalante belongs to a volcanic group north of the Sairecabur (5971 m) and has a crater lake on the summit. In the south are the Ojos del Toro (5760 m) and the Saciel (5700 m), in the northeast of the Curiquinca (5819 m) and in the northwest of the Colorados (5748 m) and the Puntan (5890 m). The rock consists mainly of the intermediate volcanic rocks andesite and dacite .

To the west of the mountain range are the rivers Rio Grande, Rio Putana and Rio Incahuasi as well as the village of Machuca on the B-245. The nearest town, San Pedro de Atacama, can be reached via a side road of the B-221 along the Termas de Puritama, Guatin and via the B-245.

See also

Individual evidence

  • Sairecabur in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)
  • González-Ferrán, Oscar: Volcanes de Chile . Instituto Geográfico Militar (Santiago, Chile), 1995, ISBN 956-202-054-1 . Page 640 ff. (Spanish)
  • DeSilva, Shanaka L .; Francis, Peter W .: Volcanoes of the Central Andes . Springer-Verlag (Berlin), 1991, ISBN 978-3-540-53706-9 . Page 216 ff. (English)
  • IAVCEI: Post-Miocene Volcanoes of the World, IAVCEI Data Sheets, 1973–1980 . Internatl Assoc Volc Chemistry Earth's Interior (Rome).
  • Escalante & Sairecabur. In: Volcano World , Oregon State University . Retrieved August 12, 2018 .
  • Deruelle, B .: Calc-alkaline and shoshonitic lavas from five Andean volcanoes (between latitudes 21 ° 45 'and 24 ° 30'S) and the distribution of the Plio-Quaternary volcanism of the south-central and southern Andes . Jour. Volcanol. Geothermal. Res. 3, 1978. pp. 281-298
  • Harmon, RS; Barreiro, BA; Moorbath, S .; Hoefs, J .; Francis, PW; Thorpe, RS; Deruelle, B .; McHugh, J .; Viglino, JA: Regional O-, Sr- and Pb-isotope relationships in late Cenozoic calc-alkaline lavas of the Andean Cordillera . J. Geol. Soc. Lond., 1984. pp. 803-822
  • Marinovic, N .; Lahsen, A .: Hoja Calama. Carta Geologica de Chile No. 58 . SNGM Santiago, Chile, 1984.

  • The post-glacial Sairecabúr volcanic group with the Escalante (1st from left)