What type is paricutin volcano

I shouted out 'Blessed Lord of the Miracles, you brought me into this world -- now save me! I looked into the fissure where the smoke was rising and my fear disappeared for the first time.

I ran to see if I could save my family, my companions and my oxen, but I could not see them and I thought that they must have taken the oxen to the spring for water. I saw that there was no water in the spring.

I was very frightened, and I mounted my mare and galloped to Paricutin where I found my wife and son and friends waiting for me. They were afraid that I was dead and that they would never see me again. Strombolian pyroclastic activity began at the fissure on the day it was discovered by Dionisio Pulido. Within 24 hours the eruption had generated a m-high scoria cone.

Within a week, it had grown to a height of m from the accumulation of bombs and lapilli, and finer fragments of ash were raining down on the village of Paricutin. The eruption became more powerful in March, generating eruptive columns several kilometers high.

Occassionally, the volcano would exhibit vulcanian-type activity, with large canon-like explosions separated by short periods of silence.

In central-vent eruptions, a fountain of fiery lava spurts to a height of several hundred feet or more. Such lava may collect in old pit craters to form lava lakes, or form cones, or feed radiating flows. Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii, Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, The distinguishing feature of phreatic explosions is that they only blast out fragments of preexisting solid rock from the volcanic conduit; no new magma is erupted. Taal Volcano, Philippines, T he most powerful eruptions are called "plinian" and involve the explosive ejection of relatively viscous lava.

Luckily, the entire village was relocated to an uninhabited area nearby. All the eruptions occured in the first 8 years after formation were considered mellow and the coverages were relatively short. The most violent, explosive eruption was recorded in and it remains dormant ever since. Over the 9 years of activity, the volcano killed about farm animals and about horses died of breathing in the volcanic ash.