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  2. Parícutin - Wikipedia

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    Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, also accented Paricutín) is a cinder cone volcano located in the Mexican state of Michoacán, near the city of Uruapan and about 322 kilometers (200 mi) west of Mexico City. The volcano surged suddenly from the cornfield of local farmer Dionisio Pulido in 1943, attracting both popular and scientific attention.

  3. Michoacán–Guanajuato volcanic field - Wikipedia

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    Other volcanoes in the field include Alberca de los Espinos in Michoacán and Cerro Culiacán in Guanajuato. [1] The cinder cones are randomly arranged and occur at low altitudes, usually, on alluvial plains or on the flanks of eroded shield volcanoes. There are an average of 2.5 cinder cones every 100 kilometres (62 mi) 2.

  4. List of volcanoes in Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Notable volcanoes in Mexico include Popocatépetl, one of the country's most active and dangerous volcanoes, Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), the highest peak in Mexico, and Parícutin, a cinder cone volcano that famously emerged from a cornfield in 1943. Mexican volcanoes play a significant role in the country's geography, climate, and culture ...

  5. Volcanic cone - Wikipedia

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    Cinder cones typically only erupt once like Parícutin. As a result, they are considered to be monogenetic volcanoes and most of them form monogenetic volcanic fields. Cinder cones are typically active for very brief periods of time before becoming inactive. Their eruptions range in duration from a few days to a few years. Of observed cinder ...

  6. List of cinder cones - Wikipedia

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    Royal Society Volcano, Antarctica; Cerro Volcánico, Argentina; Mount Mayabobo, Philippines; Bombalai Hill (Sabah, Malaysia); Geghama mountains, Armenia; Chaîne des Puys, France (a chain of volcanoes including cinder cones)

  7. Monogenetic volcanic field - Wikipedia

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    Many monogenetic volcanoes are cinder cones, often with lava flows, such as Parícutin in the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, which erupted from 1943 to 1952. Some monogenetic volcanoes are small lava shields, such as Rangitoto Island in the Auckland volcanic field. Other monogenetic volcanoes are tuff rings or maars. A monogenetic field ...

  8. Volcanic field - Wikipedia

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    The type and number of volcanoes required to be called a "field" is not well-defined. [1] Volcanic fields usually consist of clusters of up to 100 volcanoes such as cinder cones. Lava flows may also occur. They may occur as a monogenetic volcanic field or a polygenetic volcanic field.

  9. Cinder cone - Wikipedia

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    The most famous cinder cone, Paricutin, grew out of a corn field in Mexico in 1943 from a new vent. [3] Eruptions continued for nine years, built the cone to a height of 424 meters (1,391 ft), and produced lava flows that covered 25 km 2 (9.7 sq mi). [3] The Earth's most historically active cinder cone is Cerro Negro in Nicaragua. [3]