Active stratovolcano (Cotopaxi)
by Sarah Weick, KIT, Germany
Ecuador's stratovolcano (5,897 m) in the Andes contains a glacier (at ca. 5,000 m) and a crater. It belongs to the 'Pacific Ring of Fire'.
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- Field (2823)
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Location
- South America (318)
- Ecuador (21)
- Exact location (-78.3988 W, -0.6919 S)
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4000 × 3000 px;
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Camera:
Canon Digital IXUS 200 IS
Taken on 7
July
2012
Submitted on 6 December 2014
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Credit
Sarah Weick (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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