Nevado del Ruiz is located in a subduction zone, where the Nazca Plate is being forced beneath the South American Plate. This type of plate boundary is characterized by volcanic activity and earthquakes due to the movement of tectonic plates. The subduction process contributes to the formation of the Andes mountain range and the volcanic activity associated with Nevado del Ruiz.
Nevado del Ruiz is on the South American Plate and is the result of the Nazca plate subducting under it. The Cocos and Caribbean plates are not far away.
The nevado del ruiz is located on a convergent plate boundary, this is where a continental and oceanic crust collide head on and the oceanic crust (the densest) is driven under the continental and melts in the mantle, the melted plate then is pressured back up through the continental plate and forms volcanoes. fold mountains will be found here too.
Ruiz, Nevado del. Ruiz is the northern-most historically active volcano in South America (4.9N, 75.3W).
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Nevado del Ruiz is an active volcano. The last erruption occured on November 13, 1985.
Yes. Nevado Del Ruiz is a volcano known for its 1985 eruption which killed well over 20,000 people.
The Nevado del Ruiz volcano is located on a destructive plate boundary whereby the dense, oceanic Nazca plate is being subducted under the less dense, continental South American plate. The melted rock from the Oceanic plate rises to the surface, the pressure builds until the magma erupts from the volcano. It is a composite or strato volcano meaning it is made up of layers of solidified lava and pyroclasic material.
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No, Nevado del Ruiz is not a cinder cone volcano. It is a stratovolcano, which is a large, steep-sided volcano built up of many layers of hardened lava, tephra, pumice, and volcanic ash.
The Nevado de Ruiz is 5321 meters above sea level according to wikipedia.
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