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Taqui lava flow. Paricutin Volcano. Michoacan, Mexico. 1944.

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1944-01-08

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Album caption and index card: First day of the Taqui lava flow. Three vents yielded a continuous flow of lava. Steaming lower slopes of the cone to the upper left; lower slopes of Cerro de Canicjuata in the foreground. The varying degrees of incandescence mark lava surges. Photograph taken from the northwest. Paricutin Volcano. Michoacan, Mexico. January 8, 1944. Published as plate 35-A in U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 965-D (1956).

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