Aconcagua (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Aconcagua

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Now extinct, Cerro Aconcagua in northwestern Argentina was an active stratovolcano until the Miocene epoch, when it was part of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex in the Central Andes, the largest active silicic magma system on Earth.

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Barbara Carrapa

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