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The renowned Parícutin cinder cone, which grew from a Mexican cornfield beginning in 1943, is one of the roughly 1000 cinder cones dotting the massive Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field in central Mexico. White fumarolic sublimate minerals blanket the top of Nuevo Juatita in the foreground, a NE-flank vent that was the main source of lava flows during the last five years of the 1943-1952 eruption. Paricutin Volcano, Cinder Cone Volcano, Lava Dome, Shield Volcano, Lava Flow, Active Volcano, Seven Wonders, Volcano, Nicaragua

The widespread Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field contains over 1,400 vents, including the historically active cinder cones of Parícutin and Jorullo, covering a 200 x 250 km wide area of Michoacán and Guanajuato states in west-central México. Cinder cones are the predominant volcanic form, but small shield volcanoes, lava domes, maars and tuff rings (many in the Valle de Santiago area), and coneless lava flows are also present. The volcanoes with shield-type morphologies are mostly…

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