A few weeks ago I went to the collectors fair in my city and saw, literally, thousands of cheap cards. However I only bought 14. I was surprisingly very selective. Only 14 but I think I bought some interresting cards. One of them was my 2nd card of the Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador. I got the 1st one many years ago, from a UNESCO swap. This volcano is part of the Sangay National Park, a UNESCO WHS since 1983.
Tungurahua is an active stratovolcano located in the Cordillera Oriental of Ecuador. It is one of Ecuador's most active volcanoes. Three major volcanic edifices have been sequentially constructed since the mid-Pleistocene over a basement of metamorphic rocks. Tungurahua II was built within the past 14,000 years following the collapse of the initial edifice. Tungurahua II itself collapsed about 3000 years ago and produced a large debris-avalanche deposit and a horseshoe-shaped caldera open to the west, inside which the modern glacier-capped stratovolcano (Tungurahua III) was constructed. .jpg)
Foto: Isabel Wuth
Tungurahua causes many tremors in the nearby city of Banos. Tungurahua has had at least seventeen eruptions in historical times. Prior to a long-term eruption beginning in 1995 that caused the temporary evacuation of the city of Banos at the foot of the volcano, the last major eruption had occurred from 1916 to 1918, although minor activity continued until 1925. - in: https://volcano.oregonstate.edu
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