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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06885

The symmetrical Licancabur stratovolcano (left) rises above a basement of rhyodacitic ignimbrites and dacitic lava domes.   A small 80-m-wide lake, one of the world's highest, occupies its 400-m-wide summit crater.  Archaeological ruins were found on the 5916-m-high crater rim of Volcán Lincancabur.  Young lava flows with prominent levees extend up to 6 km down the NW-to-SW flanks of the volcano. Photo by Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).

The symmetrical Licancabur stratovolcano (left) rises above a basement of rhyodacitic ignimbrites and dacitic lava domes. A small 80-m-wide lake, one of the world's highest, occupies its 400-m-wide summit crater. Archaeological ruins were found on the 5916-m-high crater rim of Volcán Lincancabur. Young lava flows with prominent levees extend up to 6 km down the NW-to-SW flanks of the volcano.

Photo by Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).

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