An aerial view of the Fuego summit crater in 1990 shows the products of both effusive and explosive eruptions. The crater walls expose light-colored lava flows and lava agglutinate as well as darker scoria deposits. Historical eruptions have been basaltic in composition, continuing a trend towards more mafic in the Acatenango-Fuego volcanic complex. An Acatenango flank is to the left in this view from the SW.

Photo by Bill Rose, 1990 (Michigan Technological University).

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Keywords: crater | stratigraphy | deposit

Fuego