This plateau covers around 25% of Mars’ surface and is home to Olympus Mons. The region also includes the volcanoes Ascraeus ...

Discover interesting facts about volcanoes, including why and where they form and history's deadliest eruption.

Unity of the White Mountains at 257 Woodland Rd. in Lakeside is hosting filmmaker Barbara L. Davis and her newest nature film ...

GCSE OCR Volcanoes - OCR Structure and common features of volcanoes Composite and shield volcanoes are found along plate margins. They have distinctive characteristics and can have both positive ...

The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island sprang to life yet again this week with a Tuesday morning eruption that shot lava more than 300 feet in the air.

Pico Basile is a shield volcano located at the center of the enigmatic Cameroon Volcanic Line (CVL) in western Africa. Like the volcanoes in Hawaii, it features basalt lava flows, scoria cones ...

Mars' Olympus Mons may have once been a volcanic island surrounded by an ocean nearly 4 miles deep, according to geological evidence found in the extinct volcano.

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield volcano about 300 miles off the coast of Oregon. As the volcano grows and tremors ...

At the heart of this landscape lies the Medicine Lake Volcano, a massive dormant shield volcano whose past activity shaped much of the region's terrain and may do so again within our lifetime.

Various volcanic features can be found on the rocky planets neighboring Earth. Mars contains volcanic plains formed by past eruptions and inactive shield volcanoes that are much more massive than ...