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Summit

Rdiger Escobar Wolf, Otoniel Matias Gomez and William I. Rose

Department of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences
Michigan Tech University. June, 2008.
Geologic units
The map follows conventions used by Rose (1972). All deposits of Santiaguito are mapped with prefix R for recent. Ral corresponds to alluvial deposits; Rac
corresponds to active river channels, some of which are seasonal or intermittent; Rta corresponds to active talus; Rte corresponds to eroded talus; Rts corresponds
to stable talus usually covered with vegetation. Remaining units are all of the dome complex extruded at different times since 1922. The second letter refers to the location
of the source vents: Rc El Caliente vent; Re La Mitad Vent; Rm El Monje Vent and Rb El Brujo Vent. The third letter expresses the age progression of units from each
vent, starting with a for the oldest, and continuing in alphabetic order to the youngest (e. g. from a (Rba) for the oldest (1958) to h (Rbh) for the youngest (1975) El Brujo
vent units). Some older units mapped by Rose can no longer be found at the surface, as they are covered by younger units. These correspond to missing letters (e. g. Rca,
Rcb, Rcc, Rcd). Additional numbers at the end of some unit names are used to distinguish between subunits that were emplaced sequentially in time, e. g. subunit Rcn1 was
followed by subunit Rcn2. For more details on Santiaguito's growth history and evolution see Rose, 1972; Rose, 1987; Harris et al 2003, and Harris et al 2004.

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Rt
a

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Rte

Rta

El Caliente

Rt
s

Ral

Rm
Ral

Rta

Rcm4 Lava flow

2004

Rcm? Lava flow

Rcm3 Lava flow
2002

Rp

Rc

Rcn1

El Caliente
Vent

2000

Rck

Lava flow
2000

Rcj

Lava flow
1993 - 1995

Rci

Lava flow
1991 - 1992

Rch Lava flow

Rt
a

Alluvial and
laharic deposits
1950's - 2006

1986 - 1989

1986
Rcg

Lava flow (?)

1978 - 1984

Rta
Active talus
1902 - 2006

Rte
Rac

Rbh Lava flow

1975

Rbf

Lava flow
1975

Rbe

Lava flow
1973 - 1976

Active channels
1922 - 2006

Eroded talus
1902 - 2006

Rts
Stable talus
1902 - 2006

Rce2 Lava flow

1972 - 1973

Rce1 Lava flow

Rbd Lava flow

20
0

1971 - 1972

1970
0

Rcm2

Ral

Ral

1972 - 1973

Ral

Rcm3

Tephra
~1972 - 2006

Rck Lava flow

Ral
Ral

Rp

1996 - 1999

Rcm4

150
0

Ri
ve

Rce1

Rcm5

Rta
Ral

Co
nc
ep
ci
n

2500

Rte

Rco

Rci Rcj

Ral

Ral

2001 - 2002

Rcm?

Rch

Rts

Rcm1 Lava flow

Rcl

Rbb

Rte

2002 - 2003

Rce2

Rta

Rcm2 Lava flow

Not to scale

Rte

2004

Rce1

Rc

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Rta

2004 - 2006

2004 (?)

Rea

Rte
Ral

Rco Lava flow

Rcm5 Lava flow

Rc
n2

Ra
c

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Rba

3000

2500

Rte
20

Tephra

2005

Rcg

La Mitad
Vent

El Monje
Vent

Ral

Rte
Re

Rbe
Rbc

Talus

Rcn1 Lava flow

Time AD

El Brujo Vent

Rba

Rte

Rm
a

Rmb

Ral

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Rbf

Rbh

Alluvium

2005

Ral

Rbe

Active
channel

Rcn2 Lava flow

Rte

Rbd

0
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Rte

Rts

2006

La Mitad

El Monje

El Brujo

Rbc

Lava flow
1963 - 1966

Rbb

Lava flow
1959 - 1963

Rba

Lava flow
1958

Ral

Dome

Rmb 1956 - 1957

Ra
c

20
0

Alluvial, talus and tephra deposits

Domes and lava flows

Rma Lava flow

1950's (?)

Ral

Rm

1950

Dome
1951 - (?)

Rea Lava flow

1940's (?)

Rc

150
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Rcl

Rcm1

1939
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Ral
Rac

Re

Ra
c

Rac

Ral
m
Ni

Rch

Lava flow
1929- 1934

Geospatial reference:
Coordinate system: Guatemala Transverse Mercator (GTM).
Projection parameters: False Easting 500000. False Northing 0. Central Meridian -90.5. Scale Factor 0.9998. Latitude of Origin 0. Datum: WGS 1984.
Elevation contours: Labeled contours interval 500 m. Intermediate contour interval 50 m. Elevation values in meters above sea level.

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Sources of information:
Compiled from high resolution (0.5 m pixel) aerial orthophotos 1860-II-14 and 1860-II-19, acquired between November 2005 and April 2006 by the Instituto Geogrfico
Nacional de Guatemala (IGN). Aerial photographs from 2001, 2000, 1991, 1984, 1978, 1977, 1971, 1967, 1959, 1954 and 1947 were used to constrain the ages of
some units. Maps published by Rose (1972), Rose (1987) and Harris et al (2003) were also used to identify and date units. Unpublished field notes and reports by the
authors were used as well. Elevation data (contours) published by Japanese International Cooperation Agency and IGN (JICA et al 2003), generated by photogrametric
methods of aerial photography acquired in 2001.

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v
Ri

References:

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Harris, A J L, W I Rose, and L P Flynn. 2003. Temporal trends in lava dome extrusion at Santiaguito 1922 - 2000. Bulletin of Volcanology, 65 : 77 - 89.

Ri
ve

Rcl

0
15

Japanese International Development Agency (JICA), Instituto Geogrfico Nacional (IGN), Instituto Nacional de Sismologa, Vulcanologa, Meteorologa e Hidrologa
(INSIVUMEH) and Secretara de Planificacin y Programacin de la Presidencia (SEGEPLAN). 2003. Estudio del establecimiento de los mapas bsicos y mapas de
amenaza para el sistema de informacin geogrfica de la Repblica de Guatemala. Final report.

INSIVUMEH
Seismic station
STG 3

Rose, W I. 1972. Santiaguito Volcanic Dome, Guatemala. Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 83, p. 1413-1434.
Rose, W I. 1987. Volcanic activity at Santiaguito volcano, 1976 - 1984. in: Fink J (ed.) The emplacement of silicic domes and lava flows. Geological Society of America
special paper 212. p. 17 - 25.

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Harris, A J L, L P Flynn, O Matas, W I Rose, and J Cornejo. 2004. The evolution of an active silicic lava flow field: An ETM+ perspective. Journal of
Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 135 : 147 - 168.

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Escobar Wolf, R., Matas Gomez, R.O., and Rose, W.I., 2010, Santiaguito Dome Geologic Map: Geological Society of America Digital Map and Chart Series 8, doi: 10.1130/2010.DMCH008. For permission to copy, contact editing@geosociety.org. 2010 The Geological Society of America. All rights reserved.

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NOTE: The electronic image file for this map is formatted for printing at a 1 : 7,500 scale for a paper printing size A0 (841 mm X 1189 mm).

Contact information: Comments or questions can be directed to Rdiger Escobar Wolf. Email address: rpescoba@mtu.edu