Oxidized red scoria deposits are exposed in a quarry on Cerro el Cerrito, a scoria cone on the lower northern flank of San Salvador immediately SE of the town of Quezaltepeque.

Photo by Carlos Pullinger, 1996 (Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales, El Salvador).

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Keywords: scoria | deposit | stratigraphy | outcrop | geology | tephra | scoria cone

San Salvador