Barcena

Barcena is a small cinder cone on the island of San Benedicto, which is one of the Revilligigedo Islands. Barcena is about 310 m high, and it was born on August 1, 1952. It reached a height of 300 m in only 12 days, and by mid September of that year it had mostly ceased erupting. Two episodes of lava extrusion in November and December produced lava within the cinder cone crater and a lava delta at the coastline. By February of 1953 the eruption was over and since then only fumarolic activity has occurred.

This photograph of the 1952 eruption shows a glowing avalanche and a lava flow. Photograph credit: Howell Williams. Photo courtesy of NOAA'S National Geophysical Data Center.

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