Tukuk-OS⛰️ Soche
Ecuador · Americas · 3,955 m · 0.55°N, 77.58°W
Soche is a 3,955-metre-high (12,976 ft) dacitic volcano in Ecuador and is located on the northern end of a secondary volcanic chain. Constructed on a Paleozoic substratum, it contains an eastwards-opening caldera in the summit region. A large eruption in 6650 BCE generated ashfall into Colombia and two lava domes in the caldera. The ash- and lapilli-fall is about a metre thick in the Interandean valley and the neighbouring cordilleras and most likely represented a long-lasting obstacle for human population. Earlier eruptive events involving a lava flow that was subsequently offset by a fault zone named the Cayambe-Chingual fault by 110m occurred 9.67 ka BP, and another involving a pyroclastic flow was dated at 37.22 ± 0.63 ka BP.
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Quick facts
| Country | Ecuador |
|---|---|
| Continent / region | Americas |
| Elevation | 3,955 m above sea level |
| Coordinates (approx.) | 0.55°N, 77.58°W · view on map |
Soche rises to 3,955 m in Ecuador, in Americas. The full story of this mountain is described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).
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