Toluca

Location: 19.09N, 99.45W
Evevation: 4600 m

Toluca, or more properly Nevado de Toluca is an eroded strato volcano some 80 km WSW of Mexico City. K. Bloomfield and S. Valastro determined that the volcano was built of a number of small flows and pyroclastic deposits. It suffered huge eruptions 25,000 and 11,600 years ago with lots of erosion in between. Nevado de Toluca has a jagged eroded appearance.

Volcanic edifice is Pleistocene-Quanternary is age, polygenetic, central stratovolcano. Youngest eruptive products dated at 3300 yr BP. Composition of volcanis complex is trachyandestie-andesite. Peripheral scoria cones and lava flows are andesites and dacites. Heavily glaciated, with cirquest, and moraines, etc.

Photos are courtesty of Mike Adrams, JPL.
4-3-7 RGB compostie, perspective uses DMA Level-1 DTED data

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