Tarso Toon Explained

Tarso Toon
Map:Chad
Coordinates:21.07°N 17.62°W

Tarso Toon (sometimes also known as Tarso Toh; "Tarso" means "high plateau".) is a volcano in the central Tibesti mountains.

The volcano reaches a maximum height of and a width of 21x, covering a surface of . It also features a caldera 11x wide, with a gap on its northern side.

It was active in the Miocene, developing over older ignimbrites with tholeiitic rocks. Later, felsic volcanic rocks were emplaced within the caldera and the Voon ignimbrite buried parts of the tholeiite.

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