Transcript Document 7358992

This volcano is located
in Paricutin, Mexico,
which is 19.5 N, and
10.2W
It is approximately
10,400 feet tall (3,170
meters)
Our Volcano is
Oceanic, Continental.
This Volcano is part
of the “Ring of Fire.”
The Pacific Plate
collided with the
North American
Plate, convergent,
to create the
Paricutin volcano.
Our volcano (Paricutin) is a cinder cone.
The Lava Chemistry is obviously the colors that are
scene, red, yellow, and orange. After the eruption,
the only thing that was left was ash that covered a
25 square kilometers.
We think the eruption was very loud, because three weeks before
the eruption, the people near the Paricutin village heard the
rumbling noises that resembled thunder. They were confused
because the skies were clear of clouds. The noises they heard
were associated with earthquakes.
One day, in 1943,
Dominic Pulido, a
Tarascan Indian
farmer in central
Mexico, witnessed the
start of the eruption
of the Paricutin
volcano, right in his
corn field, which was
all ready to plant.
Paricutin was a disaster for the
farmer, and the Mexican area.
The Volcanoes lava from the
eruption spread almost 25
square kilometers. It caused
trauma for many people. This
also included two villages,
which were both covered with
lava. The surroundings were
paved with ash so thick that it
killed the forests. Amazingly
enough, no one was killed.
Paricutin isn’t just famous
for erupting in a corn field
if that’s what you’re
thinking. It was a
remarkable volcano
discovery to scientists,
because it was the very
first in history to be seen
by someone, from birth to
death. The Paricutin
volcano erupted from1943
and continued to 1952
where it then died out.
Did you know that most of the explosive
activity was during the first year of the eruption
when the cone grew to 1,100 feet (336 m). It
continued to grow for another 8 years but
added only another 290 feet (88 m).
Also, Effusive activity began on the second
day and continued to the end of the eruption.
The following pictures are from
the natural disaster from the
Paricutin Volcano:
Cleaning Up
Explosions
The Village
Watching the
Eruption
For our research, we used many resources,
which gathered by the following web sites:
~Google.com
~Askjeeves.com
~Volcanoes.com