Paricutin

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Paricutin
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Location, Location, Location!
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)
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Take A Look At The Map
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.
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Cinder Cone
Our volcano (Paricutin) is a cinder cone.
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Eruption Time!
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.
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A Day In The Corn Fields
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.
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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.
The After Shock
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What's So Rare About Paricutin?
Paricutin isnt just famous for erupting in a
corn field if thats what youre 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.
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The Strangest Things...
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.
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Pictures
The following pictures are from the natural
disaster from the Paricutin Volcano
Cleaning Up
Explosions
The Village
Watching the Eruption
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Bibliography
For our research, we used many resources, which
gathered by the following web sites Google.com
Askjeeves.com Volcanoes.com