The Luingo caldera: The south-easternmost collapse caldera in the Altiplano-Puna plateau, NW Argentina

Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 174-188

  Guzmán, Silvina ^a   Petrinovic, Ivan ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SALTA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cerro Gal n; Collapse caldera; Luingo caldera; Miocene volcanism; Southern Central Volcanic Zone

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; CRYSTAL CONTENT; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; IGNIMBRITES; MIDDLE MIOCENE; MIOCENE; PRODUCT DISTRIBUTIONS; TECTONIC SETTINGS; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; VOLCANIC COMPLEX; VOLCANIC ZONE;

STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS; VOLCANOES;

TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

CALDERA; COLLAPSE STRUCTURE; FACIES ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; MAGMA; MIOCENE; PALEOTOPOGRAPHY; STRATIGRAPHIC CORRELATION; TECTONIC SETTING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANISM;

ALTIPLANO; PUNA;

EID: 77954539315     PISSN: 03770273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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