Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03725

This photo shows an ash plume rising above Parícutin on 9 June 1943, seen here from the Uruapan highway to the east. Prevailing winds distribute the ash plume to the south. Other scoria cones appear on the horizon, some of the 1,000-plus scoria cones within the massive Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field. Photo by William Foshag, 1943 (Smithsonian Institution).

This photo shows an ash plume rising above Parícutin on 9 June 1943, seen here from the Uruapan highway to the east. Prevailing winds distribute the ash plume to the south. Other scoria cones appear on the horizon, some of the 1,000-plus scoria cones within the massive Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field.

Photo by William Foshag, 1943 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Galleries: Ash Plumes and Ashfall

Keywords: ash | ash plume | plume | eruption | wind dispersal

Michoacán-Guanajuato