The launch of a new GVP website is scheduled for Monday, May 20, 2013.
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Country: | Chile | |
| Subregion Name: | Southern Chile | ||
| Volcano Number: | 1508-052 | ||
| Volcano Type: | Stratovolcano | ||
| Volcano Status: | Radiocarbon | ||
| Last Known Eruption: | 200 AD ± 75 years | ||
| Summit Elevation: | 2400 m | 7,874 feet | |
| Latitude: | 44.08°S | 44°5'0"S | |
| Longitude: | 72.88°W | 72°53'0"W | |
| Melimoyu is a stratovolcano with an 8-km-wide, largely buried caldera located about 40 km NW of the town of Puyuhuapi. The ice-filled caldera is drained by a glacier through a notch in the NE caldera rim. The basaltic-andesite volcano is elongated 10 km in an E-W direction and has several cinder cones. A 1-km-wide crater is located at the summit of the volcano. Two late-Holocene tephra layers have been documented from Melimoyu. | |||
