Scientists found out how the volcano of Department of Masaya] blew u

And why it has such unusually big caldera. Armin Freundt/GEOMAR the Caldera located in Nicaragua a volcano of Department of Masaya on the area exceeds eight square kilometers. Though usually for this type called basalt, the smaller size is characteristic, and are formed in they result of a slow exit of magma at a depth. Eruptions in that case usually happen at the edges of a crater and is rare in its center. And though Department of Masaya is considered a basalt volcano, scientists suspected for a long time that there was it as a result of eruption, on the mechanism similar to silicon type for which it is characteristic...