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Parícutin. 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 ...
Such cinder cones likely represent the final stages of activity of a mafic volcano. [11] However, most volcanic cones formed in Hawaiian-type eruptions are spatter cones rather than cinder cones, due to the fluid nature of the lava. [12] The most famous cinder cone, Paricutin, grew out of a corn field in Mexico in 1943 from a new vent. [3]
The Michoacán–Guanajuato volcanic field covers an area of 200 by 250 kilometres (120 mi × 160 mi), in the states of Michoacán and Guanajuato. It contains 1400 vents, mostly cinder cones. The shield volcanoes are mostly Pleistocene in age. [citation needed] The field includes Siete Luminarias, a group of seven maars in and around Valle de ...
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 ...
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)
Strombolian eruptions consist of ejection of incandescent cinders, lapilli, and volcanic bombs, to altitudes of tens to a few hundreds of metres. The eruptions are small to medium in volume, with sporadic violence. This type of eruption is named for the Italian volcano Stromboli. The tephra typically glows red when leaving the vent, but its ...
The volcano partly overlaps with two older volcanoes, Baruta and Shaheru, and is also surrounded by hundreds of small volcanic cinder cones from flank eruptions. [citation needed] Nyiragongo's cone consists of pyroclastics and lava flows. [5] Nyiragongo's lavas are low-silica, alkali-rich, ultramafic extrusive rocks essentially free of feldspars.
Cerro Negro. Cerro Negro is an active volcano in the Cordillera de los Maribios mountain range in Nicaragua, about 10 km (6.2 mi) from the village of Malpaisillo. It is a very new volcano, the youngest in Central America, having first appeared in April 1850. It consists of a gravelly basaltic cinder cone, which contrasts greatly with the ...