New data from the central part of the Nicaraguan Cenozoic volcanism

Geoscience Research Reports 41, 2008 (GRR for 2007), pages 202–204

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Abstract

Project of the Czech Geological Survey for Development cooperation, supervised and financed by the Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic, started again in 2007. The area of Santa Lucia in central Nicaragua was studied. Paleogene-Neogene effusive volcanic complexes and silicic ignimbrite shields form major part of the area, covered by Pleistocene coarse agglomerates of edifice-collapse origin, possible source of which was Las Lajas caldera, at a distance of some 15 km.