Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03931

Image GVP-03931

Three stratovolcanoes tower more than 3,500 m above the Guatemala Pacific coastal plain. Acatenango is the highest of the three, a small gas plume drifts from the summit of Fuego, and Volcán de Agua to the far right rises above a low saddle between it and Volcán de Fuego. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).

Three stratovolcanoes tower more than 3,500 m above the Guatemala Pacific coastal plain. Acatenango is the highest of the three, a small gas plume drifts from the summit of Fuego, and Volcán de Agua to the far right rises above a low saddle between it and Volcán de Fuego.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: stratovolcano | degassing | gas plume | gas

Acatenango

Fuego

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Image GVP-03931