Grey glaze with maroon on the rim. Bottom marking reads "1986, El Chichon, Reno, Nevada, TM."
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El Chichon Volcano Mug
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El Chichon Volcano Mug
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This is a gray glazed mug shaped like a volcano with maroon/red "lava" on the rim. When El Chichon erupted in 1982, it killed 2,000 nearby residents in Chiapas, Mexico, and left behind a brooding, sulfuric, acidic lake that formed when the dome collapsed into a crater and filled with water. Most people thought that the volcano had long ago gone extinct, so its eruption was quite an unpleasant surprise.