Romeral (Colombia)

Status Normal Eruption -5390 3769m
Stratovolcano (Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km))

Recent work has documented the northernmost Holocene volcano in South America. The andesitic-to-dacitic Romeral stratovolcano lies at the northern end of the Ruiz-Tolima volcanic chain, NW of Cerro Bravo volcano, and east of the towns of Neira and Aranzazu. It has produced two young plinian pumice deposits that blanket areas to the NW. The pumice deposits are separated by a soil layer radiocarbon dated at about 8460 and 7340 years ago.

Romeral, a recently documented Holocene volcano, forms the dark-green forested area near the clouds above the center of this NASA Landsat image (with north to the top). The andesitic-to-dacitic Romeral stratovolcano produced two plinian pumice eruptions that blanket areas NW of the volcano. Romeral volcano lies at the northern end of the Ruiz-Tolima volcanic chain, NW of Cerro Bravo volcano, which lies east of the city of Manizales, which forms the gray area at the lower left.

NASA Landsat7 image (worldwind.arc.nasa.gov)

Last updated 2019-08-04 00:28:03