Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/26/2018 - 11:14
Fieldtrip: 
Virtual Altiplano
Latitude: 
-21.94121111°
Longitude: 
-68.53066111°

A nice outcrop of the Lower Rio San Pedro Ignimbrite is on the road between the San Pedro area and Turi/Chao.

The Lower Rio San Pedro Ignimbrite, 9.66 Ma is a dense-micro vesicular dacite with abundant lithics and juvenile pumice. The ignimbrite contains quartz, plagioclase, copper-colored biotite, titanite/sphene, but the pumice is crystal-poor (~25%) in relation to the other ignimbrites in the area. The Lower Rio San Pedro is a simple cooling unit of two distinct flow units with an average thickness of 20 m along the Rio San Pedro.