No latest activity reported for Michoacán-Guanajuato.

Below is a summary of eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).

The following references are the sources used for data regarding this volcano. References are linked directly to our volcano data file. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title. Additional discussion of data sources can be found under Volcano Data Criteria.

Alonso H, 1976. Geothermal potential of Mexico. {In}: {Proc 2nd United Nations Symp Devel Use Geotherm Resour, San Francisco}, Washington D C: U S Government Printing Office, 1: 621-624

Ban M, Hasenaka T, Delgado G H, Takaoka N, 1992. K-Ar ages of lavas from shield volcanoes in the Michoacan-Guanajuato volcanic field, Mexico. {Geof Internac}, 31: 467-473

Capra L, Macias J L, Scott K M, Abrams M, Garduno-Monroy V H, 2002. Debris avalanches and debris flows transformed from collapses in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, Mexico - behavior, and implications for hazard assessment. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 113: 81-110

Erlund E J, Cashman K V, Wallace P J, Pioli L, Rosi M, Johnson E, Delgado Granados H, 2010. Compositional evolution of magma from Paricutin Volcano, Mexico: the tephra record. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 197: 167-187

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Fries C Jr, 1953. Volumes and weights of pyroclastic material, lava, and water erupted by Paricutin Volcano, Michoacan, Mexico. {Eos, Trans Amer Geophys Union}, 34: 603-616

Gadow H, 1930. {Jorullo}. London: Cambridge Univ Press, 100 p

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Hasenaka T, Carmichael I S E, 1985. The cinder cones of Michoacan-Guanajuato, central Mexico: their age, volume and distribution, and magma discharge rate. {J Volc Geotherm Res}, 25: 105-124

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The widespread Michoacán-Guanajuato volcanic field contains over 1400 vents, including the historically active cinder cones of Parícutin and Jorullo, covering a 200 x 250 km wide area of Michoacán and Guanajuato states in west-central México. Cinder cones are the predominant volcanic form, but small shield volcanoes, lava domes, maars and tuff rings (many in the Valle de Santiago area), and coneless lava flows are also present. The shield volcanoes are mostly Pleistocene in age, and have morphologies similar to small Icelandic-type shield volcanoes, although the Michoacán-Guanajuato shields have higher slope angles and smaller basal diameters. Jorullo, which was constructed in the 18th century, and Parícutin, which grew above a former cornfield during 1943-52, are the two best known of the roughly 1000 small volcanic centers scattered throughout the volcanic field.