Taapaca, the Glossary
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143 relations: Altiplano, Amphibole, Amphibolite, Andean Volcanic Belt, Andes, Andesite, Antarctic Plate, Apatite, Arica, Arica y Parinacota Region, Aridity, Aymara language, Basalt, Basaltic andesite, Biotite, Block and ash flow, Bofedales, Bolivia, Calc-alkaline magma series, Caldera, Chile, Chile Route 11, Chungara–Tambo Quemado, Common Era, Complex volcano, Cordillera Occidental (Central Andes), Crust (geology), Cumulate rock, Cushion plant, Dacite, Estudios Atacameños, Farallon Plate, Flamingo, Flat slab subduction, Fractional crystallization (geology), Frost, Fumarole, Gayana Botánica, Geological formation, Glacier, Global Volcanism Program, Gneiss, Guallatiri, Guanaco, Hematite, Highway, History of the Incas, Holocene, Hornblende, Hot spring, ... Expand index (93 more) »
- Pliocene stratovolcanoes
- Volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region
Altiplano
The Altiplano (Spanish for "high plain"), Collao (Quechua and Aymara: Qullaw, meaning "place of the Qulla") or Andean Plateau, in west-central South America, is the most extensive high plateau on Earth outside Tibet.
Amphibole
Amphibole is a group of inosilicate minerals, forming prism or needlelike crystals, composed of double chain tetrahedra, linked at the vertices and generally containing ions of iron and/or magnesium in their structures.
Amphibolite
Amphibolite is a metamorphic rock that contains amphibole, especially hornblende and actinolite, as well as plagioclase feldspar, but with little or no quartz.
Andean Volcanic Belt
The Andean Volcanic Belt is a major volcanic belt along the Andean cordillera in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.
See Taapaca and Andean Volcanic Belt
Andes
The Andes, Andes Mountains or Andean Mountain Range are the longest continental mountain range in the world, forming a continuous highland along the western edge of South America.
Andesite
Andesite is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition.
Antarctic Plate
The Antarctic Plate is a tectonic plate containing the continent of Antarctica, the Kerguelen Plateau, and some remote islands in the Southern Ocean and other surrounding oceans.
See Taapaca and Antarctic Plate
Apatite
Apatite is a group of phosphate minerals, usually hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and chlorapatite, with high concentrations of OH−, F− and Cl− ion, respectively, in the crystal.
Arica
Arica is a commune and a port city with a population of 222,619 in the Arica Province of northern Chile's Arica y Parinacota Region.
Arica y Parinacota Region
The Arica y Parinacota Region (Región de Arica y Parinacota) is one of Chile's 16 first order administrative divisions.
See Taapaca and Arica y Parinacota Region
Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
Aymara language
Aymara (also Aymar aru) is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Bolivian Andes.
See Taapaca and Aymara language
Basalt
Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.
Basaltic andesite
Basaltic andesite is a volcanic rock that is intermediate in composition between basalt and andesite.
See Taapaca and Basaltic andesite
Biotite
Biotite is a common group of phyllosilicate minerals within the mica group, with the approximate chemical formula.
Block and ash flow
A block and ash flow or block-and-ash flow is a flowing mixture of volcanic ash and large (>26 cm) angular blocks commonly formed as a result of a gravitational collapse of a lava dome or lava flow.
See Taapaca and Block and ash flow
Bofedales
Bofedales (singular bofedal), known in some parts of Peru as oconales, are a type of wetland found in the Andes.
Bolivia
Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in western-central South America.
Calc-alkaline magma series
The calc-alkaline magma series is one of two main subdivisions of the subalkaline magma series, the other subalkaline magma series being the tholeiitic series.
See Taapaca and Calc-alkaline magma series
Caldera
A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.
Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
Chile Route 11
Chile Route 11 (Ruta 11 CH) is a main road in the northernmost portion of Chile.
See Taapaca and Chile Route 11
Chungara–Tambo Quemado
Chungara–Tambo Quemado (Paso Chungara–Tambo Quemado) is a mountain pass through the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes along the border between Chile and Bolivia.
See Taapaca and Chungara–Tambo Quemado
Common Era
Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era.
Complex volcano
A complex volcano, also called a compound volcano or a volcanic complex, is a mixed landform consisting of related volcanic centers and their associated lava flows and pyroclastic rock. Taapaca and complex volcano are complex volcanoes.
See Taapaca and Complex volcano
Cordillera Occidental (Central Andes)
Eastern Cordillera in white, Altiplano in gray, and '''Western Cordillera''' in white The Cordillera Occidental or Western Cordillera of Bolivia is part of the Andes (that is also part of the American Cordillera), a mountain range characterized by volcanic activity, making up the natural border with Chile and starting in the north with Juqhuri and ending in the south at the Licancabur volcano, which is on the southern limit of Bolivia with Chile.
See Taapaca and Cordillera Occidental (Central Andes)
Crust (geology)
In geology, the crust is the outermost solid shell of a planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite.
See Taapaca and Crust (geology)
Cumulate rock
Cumulate rocks are igneous rocks formed by the accumulation of crystals from a magma either by settling or floating.
Cushion plant
A cushion plant is a compact, low-growing, mat-forming plant that is found in alpine, subalpine, arctic, or subarctic environments around the world.
Dacite
Dacite is a volcanic rock formed by rapid solidification of lava that is high in silica and low in alkali metal oxides.
Estudios Atacameños
Estudios Atacameños is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal on anthropology, archaeology, and the history of South America.
See Taapaca and Estudios Atacameños
Farallon Plate
The Farallon Plate was an ancient oceanic tectonic plate.
See Taapaca and Farallon Plate
Flamingo
Flamingos or flamingoes are a type of wading bird in the family Phoenicopteridae, which is the only extant family in the order Phoenicopteriformes.
Flat slab subduction
Flat slab subduction is characterized by a low subduction angle (A slab refers to the subducting lower plate. A broader definition of flat slab subduction includes any shallowly dipping lower plate, as in western Mexico. Flat slab subduction is associated with the pinching out of the asthenosphere, an inland migration of arc magmatism (magmatic sweep), and an eventual cessation of arc magmatism.
See Taapaca and Flat slab subduction
Fractional crystallization (geology)
Fractional crystallization, or crystal fractionation, is one of the most important geochemical and physical processes operating within crust and mantle of a rocky planetary body, such as the Earth.
See Taapaca and Fractional crystallization (geology)
Frost
Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface.
Fumarole
A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or another rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids.
Gayana Botánica
Gayana Botánica is a biannual peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the University of Concepción.
See Taapaca and Gayana Botánica
Geological formation
A geological formation, or simply formation, is a body of rock having a consistent set of physical characteristics (lithology) that distinguishes it from adjacent bodies of rock, and which occupies a particular position in the layers of rock exposed in a geographical region (the stratigraphic column).
See Taapaca and Geological formation
Glacier
A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.
Global Volcanism Program
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program (GVP) documents Earth's volcanoes and their eruptive history over the past 10,000 years.
See Taapaca and Global Volcanism Program
Gneiss
Gneiss is a common and widely distributed type of metamorphic rock.
Guallatiri
Guallatiri is a volcano in Chile with an elevation of. Taapaca and Guallatiri are Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, stratovolcanoes of Chile and volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region.
Guanaco
The guanaco (Lama guanicoe) is a camelid native to South America, closely related to the llama.
Hematite
Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is a common iron oxide compound with the formula, Fe2O3 and is widely found in rocks and soils.
Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
History of the Incas
The Incas were most notable for establishing the Inca Empire which was centered in modern-day South America in Peru and Chile.
See Taapaca and History of the Incas
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Hornblende
Hornblende is a complex inosilicate series of minerals.
Hot spring
A hot spring, hydrothermal spring, or geothermal spring is a spring produced by the emergence of geothermally heated groundwater onto the surface of the Earth.
Huaynaputina
Huaynaputina is a volcano in a volcanic high plateau in southern Peru.
Hydrothermal circulation
Hydrothermal circulation in its most general sense is the circulation of hot water (Ancient Greek ὕδωρ, water,Liddell, H.G. & Scott, R. (1940). A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
See Taapaca and Hydrothermal circulation
Ignimbrite
Ignimbrite is a type of volcanic rock, consisting of hardened tuff.
Inca Empire
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Tawantinsuyu, "four parts together"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
Kunturiri (Bolivia and Chile)
Kunturiri (Aymara kunturi condor, -ri a suffix, Hispanicized spelling Condoriri) is a volcano in the Andes on the border of Bolivia and Chile which rises up to. Taapaca and Kunturiri (Bolivia and Chile) are volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region.
See Taapaca and Kunturiri (Bolivia and Chile)
La Paz
La Paz, officially Nuestra Señora de La Paz, is the seat of government of the Plurinational State of Bolivia.
Lahar
A lahar (from ꦮ꧀ꦭꦲꦂ) is a violent type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris and water.
Laram Q'awa (Parinacota)
Laram Q'awa (Aymara larama blue, q'awa little river, "little blue river" hispanicized spellings Larancagua, Larancahua) is a mountain in Chile situated in the Parinacota Province of the Arica and Parinacota Region, about 5,439 metres (17,845 ft) high.
See Taapaca and Laram Q'awa (Parinacota)
Lascar (volcano)
Lascar is a stratovolcano in Chile within the Central Volcanic Zone of the Andes, a volcanic arc that spans Peru, Bolivia, Argentina and Chile. Taapaca and Lascar (volcano) are Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes and stratovolcanoes of Chile.
See Taapaca and Lascar (volcano)
Lauca National Park
Lauca National Park is in Chile's far north, in the Andean range.
See Taapaca and Lauca National Park
Lauca River
The Lauca River is a binational river.
Lava
Lava is molten or partially molten rock (magma) that has been expelled from the interior of a terrestrial planet (such as Earth) or a moon onto its surface.
See Taapaca and Lava
Lava dome
In volcanology, a lava dome is a circular, mound-shaped protrusion resulting from the slow extrusion of viscous lava from a volcano. Taapaca and lava dome are lava domes.
List of volcanoes in Chile
The Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program lists 105 volcanoes in Chile that have been active during the Holocene.
See Taapaca and List of volcanoes in Chile
Lluta River
The Lluta River is a river located in the northern portion of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile.
Mafic
A mafic mineral or rock is a silicate mineral or igneous rock rich in magnesium and iron.
Magma
Magma is the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed.
Magma chamber
A magma chamber is a large pool of liquid rock beneath the surface of the Earth.
Magnetite
Magnetite is a mineral and one of the main iron ores, with the chemical formula.
Mantle wedge
A mantle wedge is a triangular shaped piece of mantle that lies above a subducting tectonic plate and below the overriding plate.
Moraine
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice sheet.
Mount Unzen
is an active volcanic group of several overlapping stratovolcanoes, near the city of Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost main island. Taapaca and Mount Unzen are complex volcanoes and lava domes.
Mountain worship
is a faith that regards mountains as sacred objects of worship.
See Taapaca and Mountain worship
National Geology and Mining Service
Santiago. The National Geology and Mining Service (Servicio Nacional de Geología y Minería; SERNAGEOMIN) is a Chilean government agency.
See Taapaca and National Geology and Mining Service
Nazca Plate
The Nazca Plate or Nasca Plate, named after the Nazca region of southern Peru, is an oceanic tectonic plate in the eastern Pacific Ocean basin off the west coast of South America.
Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Oruro Department
Oruro (Quechua: Uru Uru; Aymara: Ururu) is a department of Bolivia, with an area of.
See Taapaca and Oruro Department
Pacific Ocean
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions.
Parinacota (volcano)
Parinacota (in Hispanicized spelling), Parina Quta or Parinaquta is a dormant stratovolcano on the border of Bolivia and Chile. Taapaca and Parinacota (volcano) are Holocene stratovolcanoes, mountains of Chile, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, stratovolcanoes of Chile and volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region.
See Taapaca and Parinacota (volcano)
Parinacota Province
Parinacota Province (Provincia de Parinacota) is one of two provinces of the Chilean region of Arica y Parinacota.
See Taapaca and Parinacota Province
Partial melting
Partial melting is the phenomenon that occurs when a rock is subjected to temperatures high enough to cause certain minerals to melt, but not all of them.
See Taapaca and Partial melting
Peru–Chile Trench
The Peru–Chile Trench, also known as the Atacama Trench, is an oceanic trench in the eastern Pacific Ocean, about off the coast of Peru and Chile.
See Taapaca and Peru–Chile Trench
Phenocryst
Swiss side of the Mont Blanc massif, has large white phenocrysts of plagioclase (that have trapezoid shapes when cut through). 1 euro coin (diameter 2.3 cm) for scale. A phenocryst is an early forming, relatively large and usually conspicuous crystal distinctly larger than the grains of the rock groundmass of an igneous rock.
Plagioclase
Plagioclase is a series of tectosilicate (framework silicate) minerals within the feldspar group.
Plinian eruption
Plinian eruptions or Vesuvian eruptions are volcanic eruptions marked by their similarity to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, which destroyed the ancient Roman cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii.
See Taapaca and Plinian eruption
Plio-Pleistocene
The Plio-Pleistocene is an informally described geological pseudo-period, which begins about 5 million years ago (Mya) and, drawing forward, combines the time ranges of the formally defined Pliocene and Pleistocene epochs—marking from about 5 Mya to about 12 kya.
See Taapaca and Plio-Pleistocene
Pliocene
The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years ago.
Polylepis
Polylepis is a genus comprising 28 recognised shrub and tree species, that are endemic to the mid- and high-elevation regions of the tropical Andes.
Pomerape
Pomerape is a stratovolcano lying on the border of northern Chile and Bolivia (Oruro Department, Sajama Province, Curahuara de Carangas Municipality). Taapaca and Pomerape are Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, stratovolcanoes of Chile and volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region.
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.
Pre-Columbian era
In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.
See Taapaca and Pre-Columbian era
Proterozoic
The Proterozoic is the third of the four geologic eons of Earth's history, spanning the time interval from 2500 to 538.8Mya, the longest eon of the Earth's geologic time scale.
Province
A province is an administrative division within a country or state.
Puma (genus)
Puma is a genus in the family Felidae whose only extant species is the cougar (also known as the puma, mountain lion, and panther, among other names), and may also include several poorly known Old World fossil representatives (for example, Puma pardoides, or Owen's panther, a large, cougar-like cat of Eurasia's Pliocene).
Pumice
Pumice, called pumicite in its powdered or dust form, is a volcanic rock that consists of extremely vesicular rough-textured volcanic glass, which may or may not contain crystals.
Puna grassland
The puna grassland ecoregion, part of the Andean montane grasslands and shrublands biome, is found in the central Andes Mountains of South America.
See Taapaca and Puna grassland
Putre
Putre is a Chilean town and commune, capital of the Parinacota Province in the Arica-Parinacota Region.
Pyroclastic flow
A pyroclastic flow (also known as a pyroclastic density current or a pyroclastic cloud) is a fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic matter (collectively known as tephra) that flows along the ground away from a volcano at average speeds of but is capable of reaching speeds up to.
See Taapaca and Pyroclastic flow
Pyroclastic rock
Pyroclastic rocks are clastic rocks composed of rock fragments produced and ejected by explosive volcanic eruptions.
See Taapaca and Pyroclastic rock
Pyroxene
The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated Px) are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks.
Qachini
Qachini (Aymara qachi a corral where sheep is separated or cured, -ni a suffix to indicate ownership, 'the one with a corral for sheep', also spelled Ccachine, Jachini) or Tara Paka (Aymara for "two-headed eagle", Quechua for Andean eagle, Hispanicized spelling Tarapacá) is a mountain in the north of the Apolobamba mountain range in the Andes of Peru, about high.
Quartz
Quartz is a hard, crystalline mineral composed of silica (silicon dioxide).
Quechuan languages
Quechua, also called Runasimi ('people's language') in Southern Quechua, is an indigenous language family that originated in central Peru and thereafter spread to other countries of the Andes.
See Taapaca and Quechuan languages
Rhea (bird)
Rheas, also known as ñandus or South American ostrich, are moderately sized South American ratites (flightless birds without a keel on their sternum bone) of the order Rheiformes.
Rhyodacite
Rhyodacite is a volcanic rock intermediate in composition between dacite and rhyolite.
Rhyolite
Rhyolite is the most silica-rich of volcanic rocks.
Rodent
Rodents (from Latin rodere, 'to gnaw') are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of continuously growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.
Sanidine
Sanidine is the high temperature form of potassium feldspar with a general formula K(AlSi3O8).
Seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea.
Sector collapse
A sector collapse or lateral collapse is the structural failure and subsequent collapse of part of a volcano.
See Taapaca and Sector collapse
Serpentinite
Serpentinite is a metamorphic rock composed predominantly of one or more serpentine group minerals formed by near to complete serpentinization of mafic to ultramafic rocks.
Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Shrubland
Shrubland, scrubland, scrub, brush, or bush is a plant community characterized by vegetation dominated by shrubs, often also including grasses, herbs, and geophytes.
Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, or simply the Smithsonian, is a group of museums, education and research centers, the largest such complex in the world, created by the U.S. government "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Founded on August 10, 1846, it operates as a trust instrumentality and is not formally a part of any of the three branches of the federal government.
See Taapaca and Smithsonian Institution
Snow
Snow comprises individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
See Taapaca and Snow
Socoroma
Socoroma is a village in the Arica and Parinacota Region, Chile.
Soufrière Hills
The Soufrière Hills are an active, complex stratovolcano with many lava domes forming its summit on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. Taapaca and Soufrière Hills are complex volcanoes and Holocene stratovolcanoes.
See Taapaca and Soufrière Hills
South American Plate
The South American Plate is a major tectonic plate which includes the continent of South America as well as a sizable region of the Atlantic Ocean seabed extending eastward to the African Plate, with which it forms the southern part of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
See Taapaca and South American Plate
South Andean deer
The south Andean deer (Hippocamelus bisulcus), also known as the southern guemal, south Andean huemul, southern huemul, or Chilean huemul or güemul, is an endangered species of deer native to the mountains of Argentina and Chile.
See Taapaca and South Andean deer
Steppe
In physical geography, a steppe is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without closed forests except near rivers and lakes.
Stratovolcano
A stratovolcano, also known as a composite volcano, is a conical volcano built up by many layers (strata) of hardened lava and tephra.
Subduction
Subduction is a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere and some continental lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries.
Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.
Tacora
Tacora is a stratovolcano located in the Andes of the Arica y Parinacota Region of Chile. Taapaca and Tacora are mountains of Chile, Pleistocene stratovolcanoes, stratovolcanoes of Chile and volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region.
Tarapacá (disambiguation)
Tarapacá (Hispanicized spelling) or Tara Paka (Aymara for "two-headed eagle", Quechua for Andean eagle) may refer to.
See Taapaca and Tarapacá (disambiguation)
Tephra
Tephra is fragmental material produced by a volcanic eruption regardless of composition, fragment size, or emplacement mechanism.
Thrust fault
A thrust fault is a break in the Earth's crust, across which older rocks are pushed above younger rocks.
Titanite
Titanite, or sphene, is a calcium titanium nesosilicate mineral, CaTiSiO5.
Types of volcanic eruptions
Several types of volcanic eruptions—during which material is expelled from a volcanic vent or fissure—have been distinguished by volcanologists.
See Taapaca and Types of volcanic eruptions
University of Concepción
Universidad de Concepción (UdeC) is a traditional Chilean private university.
See Taapaca and University of Concepción
University of Tarapacá
University of Tarapacá (Universidad de Tarapacá) is a university in Arica, Chile.
See Taapaca and University of Tarapacá
Vicuña
The vicuña (Lama vicugna) or vicuna (both, very rarely spelled vicugna, its former genus name) is one of the two wild South American camelids, which live in the high alpine areas of the Andes, the other being the guanaco, which lives at lower elevations.
Viracocha
Viracocha (also Wiraqocha, Huiracocha; Quechua Wiraqucha) is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America.
Viscacha
Viscacha or vizcacha are rodents of two genera (Lagidium and Lagostomus) in the family Chinchillidae.
Visviri
Visviri is a Chilean hamlet at the northern end of the country and the capital of the General Lagos commune in Parinacota Province, Arica and Parinacota Region.
Volcanic arc
A volcanic arc (also known as a magmatic arc) is a belt of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic tectonic plate, with the belt arranged in an arc shape as seen from above.
Volcanic bomb
A volcanic bomb or lava bomb is a mass of partially molten rock (tephra) larger than 64 mm (2.5 inches) in diameter, formed when a volcano ejects viscous fragments of lava during an eruption.
Volcanic field
A volcanic field or crater row is an area of Earth's crust that is prone to localized volcanic activity.
See Taapaca and Volcanic field
Volcanic landslide
A volcanic landslide or volcanogenic landslide is a type of mass wasting that takes place at volcanoes.
See Taapaca and Volcanic landslide
Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
Yareta
Yareta or llareta (Azorella compacta, known historically as Azorella yareta, from yarita in the Quechua language) is a velvety, chartreuse cushion plant in the family Apiaceae which is native to South America.
See also
Pliocene stratovolcanoes
- Ambitle
- Antofalla
- Aracar
- Aucanquilcha
- Cerro Chela
- Cerro El Cóndor
- Cerro Tláloc
- Copiapó (volcano)
- Coropuna
- El Laco
- Goat Rocks
- Koh-i-Sultan
- La Yeguada
- Lanín
- Lauca (volcano)
- Little Barrier Island
- Los Patos
- Miñiques
- Miño Volcano
- Mount Aragats
- Mount Batulao
- Mount Cayley
- Mount Discovery
- Mount Erciyes
- Mount Fee
- Mount Hasan
- Mount Kenya
- Mount Mariveles
- Mount Pirongia
- Mount Taylor (New Mexico)
- Mounts of Cantal
- Nevado del Ruiz
- Palpana
- Romeral (volcano)
- Sabalan
- Sahand
- Sillajhuay
- Taapaca
- Tatajachura
- Tutupaca
Volcanoes of Arica y Parinacota Region
- Acotango
- Arintica
- Caldera Lauca
- Choquelimpie
- Chupiquiña
- El Rojo Norte
- El Rojo Sur
- Guallatiri
- Kimsa Chata (Bolivia-Chile)
- Kunturiri (Bolivia and Chile)
- Lauca (volcano)
- Parinacota (volcano)
- Payachata
- Pomerape
- Pukintika
- Sillajhuay
- Taapaca
- Tacora
- Uqi Uqini
- Vilavilque (Chile and Peru)
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taapaca
Also known as Nevado de Putre, Nevados de Putre, Taapaca (volcano).
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