Bedded scoria deposits that formed the flanks of a basaltic scoria cone are exposed in a quarry at Cerro Singüil. This cone is the largest of a small cluster of cones in El Salvador's interior valley, SE of Volcán Chingo. These cones are part of a broad area of monogenetic basaltic volcanism near the Guatemalan border.

Photo by Carlos Pullinger, 1996 (Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales, El Salvador).

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Keywords: stratigraphy | geology | outcrop | tephra | deposit

Cerro Singüil