Volcanoes: El Popocatepetl

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Volcanoes: El Popocatepetl Location: Mexico City, Puebla Border Type: Glacier-clad stratovolcano (composite volcano) About Stratovolcanoes Xalitzintla (photos) About El Popo

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Volcanoes: El Popocatepetl. Location: Mexico City, Puebla Border Type: Glacier-clad stratovolcano (composite volcano) About Stratovolcanoes Xalitzintla (photos) About El Popo. Composite or Stratovolcanoes. Xalitzintla. Located about 12 km from El Popo - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Volcanoes: El Popocatepetl

Location: Mexico City, Puebla Border

Type: Glacier-clad stratovolcano (composite volcano) About

Stratovolcanoes Xalitzintla (photos) About El Popo

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Composite or Stratovolcanoes

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Xalitzintla

Located about 12 km from El Popo

Closest town to the volcano; in high risk zone for effects of volcanic activity

Shows a typical daily fumarole that occurs

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XalitzintlaShaun and the Volcano

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El Popocatepetl

More than 2,000 Volcanoeslocated in Mexico

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El Popocatepetl

El Popocatepetl is an Aztec word meaning smoking mountain

An example of an active stratovolcano

Crater is 900 m in diameter, 250 - 450 m deep

Second highest volcano in North America

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El Popo in the “Big picture”

El Popo continues to spew ash and debris from times to time. Also seismic activity continues.

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