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Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-03993

The flanks of Pacaya rise above foothills at the margin of the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala. The summit is MacKenney cone, which was constructed within a collapse crater produced by the gravitational failure of an ancestral Pacaya edifice. The resulting debris avalanche traveled 25 km from the volcano to near the village of Las Chapernas on the coastal plain, beyond the point of this photo. Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).

The flanks of Pacaya rise above foothills at the margin of the Pacific coastal plain of Guatemala. The summit is MacKenney cone, which was constructed within a collapse crater produced by the gravitational failure of an ancestral Pacaya edifice. The resulting debris avalanche traveled 25 km from the volcano to near the village of Las Chapernas on the coastal plain, beyond the point of this photo.

Photo by Lee Siebert, 1988 (Smithsonian Institution).

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Keywords: stratovolcano


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