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Nevado del Tolima

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Mountain type
  
Stratovolcano

Elevation
  
5,215 m

Mountain range
  
Cordillera Central

Parent range
  
Cordillera Central

Volcanic arc/belt
  
Andean Volcanic Belt

Last eruption
  
1943

Phone
  
+57 313 4943437

Nevado del Tolima

Location
  
Tolima Department, Colombia

Address
  
Los Nevados National Park, Ibagué, Tolima, Colombia

Similar
  
Nevado del Ruiz, Santa Isabel, Nevado del Huila, Puracé, Cerro Machín

Nevado del Tolima is a stratovolcano located in Tolima Department, Colombia, south of Nevado del Ruiz volcano.

The steep-sided, glacier-clad Nevado del Tolima volcano contrasts with the broad profile of Nevado del Ruiz volcano to the north. The andesitic-dacitic younger Tolima volcano formed during the past 40,000 years, rising above and largely obscuring a 3-km-wide late-Pleistocene caldera. The summit consists of a cluster of late-Pleistocene to Holocene lava domes that were associated with thick block-lava flows on the northern and eastern flanks and extensive pyroclastic-flow deposits. The summit contains a funnel-shaped crater 200–300 m deep. This crater is quite recent and was not present in December 1926. <"El Grafico" 19 February 1927 no. 819 page 714 first column at the bottom>

Holocene activity has included explosive eruptions ranging in size from moderate to plinian. The last major eruption took place about 3600 years ago. Lava dome growth has produced block-and-ash flows that traveled primarily to the NE and SE. Minor explosive eruptions have been recorded from Tolima in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Nevado del tolima cumbre julio 2016 jornada completa


References

Nevado del Tolima Wikipedia