Global Volcanism Program | Image GVP-07908

The front of the 1972 lava flow ends on grassy slopes on the southern flank of MacKenney cone at Pacaya. The rock hammer to the upper right provides scale next to the top of the flow front that formed when still-fluid lava was squeezed through an irregular crack in previously solidified crust. Photo by Bill Rose, 1972 (Michigan Technological University).

The front of the 1972 lava flow ends on grassy slopes on the southern flank of MacKenney cone at Pacaya. The rock hammer to the upper right provides scale next to the top of the flow front that formed when still-fluid lava was squeezed through an irregular crack in previously solidified crust.

Photo by Bill Rose, 1972 (Michigan Technological University).

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Keywords: lava flow

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