Poás (Alajuela Province, Costa Rica)
Poas volcano, Costa Rica
| Volcano: | Poas (see Poas at the Smithsonian Institution website in a new tab) |
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| Type: | Volcanic Plume |
| Description: | The Poás Volcano, (Spanish: Volcán Poás), is an active 2,708-metre (8,885 ft) stratovolcano in central Costa Rica. It has erupted 39 times since 1828. It was showing intense degassing in mid-April 2013 from a fumarole field between the shore of the crater lake and the dome. The fumaroles of the dome, which had started a new heating cycle in early 2013, had a temperature of ∼500◦C. |
Point of contact for this site:
Alessandro Aiuppa, alessandro.aiuppa@unipa.it (DiSTeM, University of Palermo)
| Measurement | date (d/m/y) | Added by | Added on |
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| Poás_16042013 | 16/4/2013 | Emanuela Bagnato | Nov. 13, 2016 |
Bibliographic references for this site
Aiuppa, A., P.Robidoux, G.Tamburello, V.Conde, B.Galle, G.Avard, E.Bagnato, J.M.DeMoor, M.Martínez, A.Muñóz, 2014,Gas measurements from the Costa Rica–Nicaragua volcanic segment suggest possible along-arc variations in volcanic gas chemistry, Earth andPlanetaryScienceLetters, vol.407, pp. 134–147, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.041
