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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-04818

Cerros de Tocorpuri, seen here from the west, is a Pleistocene stratovolcano complex on the Chile-Bolivia border.  A Holocene lava dome on its western foot, Cerro la Torta, forms the light-colored ridge at the left foreground.  The circular, roughly 5 cu km Cerro la Torta was erupted from a central vent and is surrounded by a flat-topped surface with wrinkled flow ridges.  The flow terminates in steep, talus-covered margins about 150-m high.  Lava extrusion was preceded by minor silicic explosive eruptions. Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1983.

Cerros de Tocorpuri, seen here from the west, is a Pleistocene stratovolcano complex on the Chile-Bolivia border. A Holocene lava dome on its western foot, Cerro la Torta, forms the light-colored ridge at the left foreground. The circular, roughly 5 cu km Cerro la Torta was erupted from a central vent and is surrounded by a flat-topped surface with wrinkled flow ridges. The flow terminates in steep, talus-covered margins about 150-m high. Lava extrusion was preceded by minor silicic explosive eruptions.

Copyrighted photo by Katia and Maurice Krafft, 1983.

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Cerros de Tocorpuri