Paco (volcano)
| Paco | ||
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| height | 524 m | |
| location | Mindanao Island , Philippines | |
| Coordinates | 9 ° 35 '36 " N , 125 ° 31' 12" E | |
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| Type | Stratovolcano | |
| rock | Andesite , dacite , basalt | |
| Last eruption | Holocene | |
The Paco volcano is located in the northeast of the Philippine island of Mindanao in the province of Surigao del Norte between Lake Mainit and Surigao City . He is also known to the local population under the name of Manlayao . He's a 524-meter-high stratovolcano . Its profile is characterized by its frustoconical and nested calderas . They have a diameter of 2.5 and 5 kilometers, inside of which lava domes made of andesite rock rise. The basic material of the volcano is basalt; it borders on the north-south trending Philippines fault , a geotectonic fault zone. The age of the youngest rock is given as 90,000 years ± 40,000 years.
Legends of the population in the region tell of an eruption that created the caldera. There are no written records of an eruption; there is also no chronological determination of the time of the last eruption of the Pacos. However, the volcano shows fumarolic activity.
source
- Paco in the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution (English)