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Data from the Global Volcanism Program of the Smithsonian Institution
Details for: Toluca, Nevado de
Nevado de Toluca is a broad edifice with a 1.5-km-wide summit crater that opens to the east. The northern flank rises here above the Zacango valley with a thin covering of summit snow. Two explosive eruptions during the late Pleistocene produced widespread ashfall and pyroclastic flow deposits. More recent work has revealed evidence for at least one Holocene eruption, about 3,300 years ago. Photo by José Macías, 1997 (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México).
Volcano Number:
341070
Volcano Name:
Toluca, Nevado de
Country:
Mexico
Volcano Type:
Stratovolcano
Last Eruption:
1350 BCE
Elevation:
4680m
Tectonic Setting:
Subduction zone / Continental crust (> 25 km)
Pop. within 5km:
126
Pop. within 10km:
1240
Pop. within 30km:
1626432
Pop. within 100km:
25247342
Latitude:
19.108
Longitude:
-99.758
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Nevado de Toluca, México's fourth highest peak, rises above the Toluca basin about 80 km W of Mexico City. The broad, complex andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano, also known by the Nahuatl Indian name Xinantécatl, has a 1.5-km-wide summit crater open to the east. A large dacitic lava dome in the crater separates two lakes, known as the lakes of the Sun and Moon. At least three major edifice collapses during the Pleistocene produced large debris avalanche and lahar deposits that affected broad areas below the volcano. Four major explosive eruptions during the late Pleistocene produced widespread ashfall and pyroclastic-flow deposits at about 36,000, 21,700, 12,100, and 10,500 years ago (uncalibrated 14C), producing the Ochre and the Lower, Middle, and Upper Toluca Pumice deposits, respectively. Recent work has revealed evidence for at least one Holocene eruption, about 3,300 years ago, that produced pyroclastic flows and surges.
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