The photos of Cotopaxi are great! Could you please tell me more about the volcano. Thanks.Joe Roberts

rocky Joe Roberts

Dear Joe,

Cotopaxi is one of the world's great looking volcanoes. It is monitored seismically and by deformation measurements by scientists at Escuela Politecnica Nacional in Quito. The last significant eruption was in 1877 when mudflows travelled 10s of kilometers into areas that are now heavily populated. An interesting student project report about monitoring gases at Cotopaxi is at:

http://kilburn.keene.edu/Courses/GEOL498/cotopaxi/cotopaxi.html

Hope this information helps.

Chuck Wood, University of North Dakota 

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