Chicabal

Chicabal crater lake

Chicabal is a 2,720 metres (8,920 ft) extinct volcano in the Quetzaltenango department of Guatemala.^[1] Its edifice has a volume of 12 km³.Coordinates: 14°47′N 91°40′W / 14.79°N 91.66°W^[2] The volcano has a crater lake, Chicabal Lake, and is constructed within a collapse scar that may have been the consequence of a failure of a previous edifice.^[3] It is associated with Santa Maria volcano.^[4]

References

1. Fernandez-Rivas, R (1970). "Geothermal resources of Guatemala, Central America". Geothermics 2: 1024. doi:10.1016/0375-6505(70)90408-6. ISSN 0375-6505.
2. Siebert, Lee; Alvarado, Guillermo E.; Vallance, James W.; van Wyk de Vries, Benjamin (2006). "Large-volume volcanic edifice failures in Central America and associated hazards" 412: 1–26. doi:10.1130/2006.2412(01).
3. MacVean, Charles; Schuster, Jack C. (1981). "Altitudinal Distribution of Passalid Beetles (Coleoptera, Passalidae) and Pleistocene Dispersal on the Volcanic Chain of Northern Central America". Biotropica 13 (1): 29. doi:10.2307/2387868. ISSN 0006-3606.
4. Rose, William I. (1987). "Santa María, Guatemala: Bimodal soda-rich calc-alkalic stratovolcano". Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research 33 (1-3): 109–129. doi:10.1016/0377-0273(87)90056-4. ISSN 0377-0273.