Mabinga
Mabinga, as the locals call it, had been sleeping. This giant volcano was named after the tobacco, which grows in the valley around it, and for thousands of years it had lain dormant, and largely out of the way. Located in Northern Chile this volcano is a secluded wonder of nature; it rests in the Guachero valley, and is overshadowed by the high peaks of Mountains, which surround it. In lies in the very center of the valley, and certainly has an established presence if one should ever lay eyes on it, which is quite a proposition considering the difficulty to reach it. In fact there is only one way into the volcano, a high mountain pass that was cut thousands of years ago by the Incas. They used to cultivate tobacco in this solemn valley, but due to irresponsible farm techniques the tobacco that grows there today is of a very low quality and not bothered with. An eruption occurred during the Incan era, the last citing of this volcano, which completely wiped out the village that was there, and ever since then, Mabinga has been waiting, building pressure, growing ever closer to an eruption.Mabinga is a cone volcano, meaning that it is fairly steep and looks basically like the stereotypical image that one imagines when thinking
on the subject. It rises 13,400 feet above sea level, which is somewhat daunting, yet this is not so when looking at the volcano, because all around it are mountains which overshadow it at an average elevation of 16,000 feet. The Mineralogy of this particular volcano bears little difference to other volcanoes that reside throughout the Andes Mountains. The viscosity of the volcano, the characteristic which helps determine the overall shape of the volcano, is relatively high, with high silica content. The main rocks, too, remind one of all the other volcanoes of the area. Andesite (named after the Andes Mountains), and Rhyolite are the main rocks that are produced by the volcano. The tectonic setting of the volcano is that of an ocean plate receding under the continental plate in his convergent boundary. This produces the large mass of mountains around the volcano and the volcano itself. The large amount of friction caused by the two colliding plates creates extreme heat causing the crust of the earth to melt and then turned into magma. The Volcanoes extremely potent mixture of high-pressure magma and the entrapped valley that surrounds it creates a death trap for anyone who ensues to enter this volcanoes layer. The only inhabitants of this valley were that of a militant guerilla group that has been causing vast trouble in the surrounding areas of Chile for the last twenty years. They have been well noted for their drug trafficking activities and crimes sprees
Some topics in this essay:
Mountains Rhyolite,
Atlantic Ocean,
Northern Chile,
Andes Mountains,
,
Bolivia Brazil,
lava flow,
andes mountains,
government response,
main rocks,
tobacco grows,
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