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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-11058

The glaciated Sierra Nevada volcano (center) is an andesitic to basaltic stratovolcano that lies about 15 km NE of Llaima volcano (far left).  A snow-capped 7-km-long, E-W zone of fissure vents is visible above and to the left of Sierra Nevada near Laguna Conquillio, whose shores are partially constrained by lava flows from the two volcanoes.  The age of Sierra Nevada has been considered to be late-Pleistocene or late-Pleistocene to Holocene.  NASA International Space Station image ISS006-E-40420, 2003 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

The glaciated Sierra Nevada volcano (center) is an andesitic to basaltic stratovolcano that lies about 15 km NE of Llaima volcano (far left). A snow-capped 7-km-long, E-W zone of fissure vents is visible above and to the left of Sierra Nevada near Laguna Conquillio, whose shores are partially constrained by lava flows from the two volcanoes. The age of Sierra Nevada has been considered to be late-Pleistocene or late-Pleistocene to Holocene.

NASA International Space Station image ISS006-E-40420, 2003 (http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/).

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Sierra Nevada