Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-06922

Image GVP-06922

Glaciers mantle the southern side of 4850-m-high Palomo volcano (left-center). The ice cover forms the Universidad (University) Glacier, which drains to the SW into the Tinguiririca River. Photo by Wolfgang Foerster, courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).

Glaciers mantle the southern side of 4850-m-high Palomo volcano (left-center). The ice cover forms the Universidad (University) Glacier, which drains to the SW into the Tinguiririca River.

Photo by Wolfgang Foerster, courtesy of Oscar González-Ferrán (University of Chile).

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Palomo

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Image GVP-06922