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Unlike most geological happenings, the growth of a volcano can be very rapid. In 1943, a farmer in Mexico noticed smoke coming from a crack in the ground in his cornfield. Lava began to ooze out, and six days later it had piled up into a volcanic cone 150 m high. By the end of the year the cone had grown to 450 m.
The eruption finally stopped in 1952, when the volcano Paricutin had reached a height of 2,808 m above sea level. The volcano had buried two whole villages.
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