This is a view of El Chichon from the east. It is not a very imposing volcano. With a summit that is only a few hundred meters above the surrounding area, it is lower than the surrounding non-volcanic hills. In this photo you can see the gullies that have been cut into the 1982 pyroclastic flows. The orange color in the streams is an iron deposit that precipitates out of water that has flowed through the pyroclastic flows.
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