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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...
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    USS Paricutin (AE-18) was laid down under Maritime Commission Contract, 7 December 1944 by North Carolina Shipbuilding Company, Wilmington, N.C. as MC...
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  • Australia Harbor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mount Everest, China and Nepal Parícutin, Mexico Victoria Falls, Zambia and Zimbabwe This list is the same as the...
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    considered to be the most elaborate and famous in all of Mexico. The famous Paricutín volcano, which is one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, is located...
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    un volcán, el Paricutín ("How a Volcano is Born and Grows – Paricutín"), he told of his experience of witnessing the eruption of Paricutín in 1943. He was...
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    volcanic fields and also occur in some subduction zone settings as well. Parícutin, the Mexican cinder cone which was born in a cornfield on February 20...
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    Etna in 1928 (rebuilt) Parícutin (village after which the volcano was named) and San Juan Parangaricutiro, Mexico, by Parícutin from 1943 to 1952 Heimaey...
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    Parangaricutirimícuaro is a small village in the Mexican state of Michoacán near the Parícutin volcano. It is the municipal seat for the municipality of Nuevo Parangaricutiro...
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    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China Parícutin volcano, located in the state of Michoacán, Mexico Victoria Falls, on...
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    was still in the explosive pyroclastic phase. The nearby villages of Paricutín (after which the volcano was named) and San Juan Parangaricutiro were...
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    cones may form as flank vents on larger volcanoes, or occur on their own. Parícutin in Mexico and Sunset Crater in Arizona are examples of cinder cones. In...
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  • Francisco Peaks, USA Kendrick Peak 3,178 10,427 San Francisco Peaks, USA Parícutin 3,170 10,400 Mexico Mount Aylmer 3,162 10,374 Canadian Rockies South Sister...
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  • La Brea Tar Pits. The story was inspired by the 1943 formation of the Parícutin volcano in Mexico. Volcano was released by 20th Century Fox in the United...
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    minerals. Notable occurrences include Tajikistan; Mount Vesuvius, Italy; and Parícutin, Michoacan, Mexico. It is commonly used to clean the soldering iron in...
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  • Dempo 3,173 10,410 Sumatra, Indonesia El Jorullo 3,170 10,400 Mexico Parícutin 3,170 10,400 Mexico Callaqui 3,164 10,381 Chile Volcán Tolimán 3,158 10...
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    Monogenetic cones usually erupt in the Strombolian style. For example, the Parícutin volcano erupted continuously between 1943–1952, Mount Erebus, Antarctica...
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    eruption List of rock types – List of rock types recognized by geologists Parícutin – Dormant volcano in Michoacán, Mexico Tephra – Fragmental material produced...
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    Creek Cone, British Columbia Williams Cone, British Columbia El Jorullo Parícutin, Mexico Pinacate Peaks, Mexico Craters of the Moon National Monument and...
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    small rivulets). Volcanoes known to have Strombolian activity include: Parícutin, Mexico, which erupted from a fissure in a cornfield in 1943. Two years...
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    Basaltic andesite from Parícutin volcano in Mexico...
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    cones, due to the fluid nature of the lava. The most famous cinder cone, Paricutin, grew out of a corn field in Mexico in 1943 from a new vent. Eruptions...
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  • Shot on location in Michoacán, Mexico, the film includes scenes of the Parícutin volcano, which was then erupting. Captain from Castile was the feature...
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  • to William. Joan, Lucien, and Allen plan a weekend trip to visit the Parícutin volcano. Meanwhile, William, having met with Lee in Guatemala, finds Lee...
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    El Chichón, in southern Mexico, underwent a violent eruption in 1983. Parícutin in northwest Mexico began as puffs of smoke in a cornfield in 1943; a...
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    declared "International Mother Language Day" by UNESCO. February 25 – The Parícutin active volcano in Michoacán, west central Mexico, ceases its discontinuous...
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    was buried by ash and lava in 1943, during the formative eruption of Parícutin. Ojuela, a mining town near Durango City, was abandoned when the area's...
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    Vesuvius (AE-15) USS Mount Katmai (AE-16) USS Great Sitkin (AE-17) USS Paricutin (AE-18) USS Diamond Head (AE-19) Fomalhaut-class: MC type C1-A USS Fomalhaut...
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  • monogenetic volcanoes are cinder cones, often with lava flows, such as Parícutin in the Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field, which erupted from 1943 to...
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    include (from west to east) Nevado de Colima (4,339 metres (14,236 ft)), Parícutin (2,774 metres (9,101 ft)), Nevado de Toluca (4,577 metres (15,016 ft))...
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  • Peak Russia 1946 4 Avachinsky Russia 1945 4 Parícutin Mexico 1943–1952 3 1943-1952 eruption of Parícutin 4 Rabaul Papua New Guinea 1937 507 4 Kuchinoerabu-jima...
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