Cerro Panizos is a late Miocene-age shield-shaped volcano consisting of ignimbrites, two calderas (a depression formed by the collapse of a volcano) and a group of lava domes in the Potosi Department of Bolivia and the Jujuy Province of Argentina. It is part of the Andean Central Volcanic Zone (CVZ) and the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex (APVC), a group of calderas and associated ignimbrites that erupted during the past ten million years. Incapillo is one of several ignimbrite or caldera systems that, along with 44 active stratovolcanoes, are part of the CVZ.
Subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate is responsible for most of the volcanism in the CVZ. After activity commenced in the APVC about ten million years ago, it produced the large volcanic calderas Panizos, Vilama, Cerro Guacha and last Uturuncu, which shows evidence of ongoing activity. The formation of the APVC has been linked to the existence of a giant magmatic body in the crust of the Andes.
Panizos is the source of two major ignimbrites, the older Cienago Ignimbrite and the more recent Panizos Ignimbrite. The former was erupted about 7.9 million years ago and the second 6.7 million years ago. The Panizos Ignimbrite has a total volume exceeding 650 cubic kilometres (160 cu mi), and has been noted for volcanic rocks containing orbs. Several volcanic cones such as Limitayoc were active between the ignimbrite eruptions, and a plateau of lava flows and lava domes formed in the central area of the Panizos Ignimbrite after the last eruptions.
CerroPanizos is a late Miocene-age shield-shaped volcano consisting of ignimbrites, two calderas (a depression formed by the collapse of a volcano) and...
include those of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex, as are CerroPanizos, Pastos Grandes, Cerro Guacha, and La Pacana. Other silicic systems are Los Frailes...
caldera. The Guacha caldera forms a structure with the neighbouring CerroPanizos, Coranzulí and Vilama calderas associated with a fault named the Lípez...
which they belong the mountains of La Ramada, Bayo, Panizos, Limitajo, Vilama, Brajma and Zapaleri. Cerro Tinte is located in an endorheic river basin, characterized...
ignimbrite producing eruptions. These calderas include Aguas Calientes, CerroPanizos, Galan, Negra Muerta and La Pacana. Some of these volcanic centres appear...
from the range. Quebrada Alta is another archeological site. Antofalla CerroPanizos Coranzuli Chernicoff, Carlos J; Richards, Jeremy P; Zappettini, Eduardo...
the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex. This group includes the Cerro Guacha, CerroPanizos, Coranzulí, La Pacana, Pastos Grandes and Vilama centres that...
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Dávila and Cáceres. Sotomayor's troops evicted Cáceres from his positions on Cerro San Juan, separating the Peruvian lines at a second point. Colonel Miguel...
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