When a cinder cone erupts, the ground shakes as magma ... found inside the craters or on the flanks of large composite volcanoes. Example: Mont Pelée. – Shield volcanoes: Form when lava cools ...

The city of Flagstaff has taken big steps to preserve the clarity of its night sky. Find out the best ways to experience the ...

Lassen Volcanic National Park, true to its name, is one of the best places in the United States to see the legacy of eons of volcanic activity. Most notably, the park features examples of each of ...

A new study has found surprising evidence of large bodies of magma lurking beneath long-dormant volcanoes in the Cascade ...

When you look down into Haleakalā’s depths, you can count 14 different cinder cones, or puʻu. These formed when explosive volcanic eruptions ejected ... they were first described or where the best ...

Some examples exhibit red to green dichroism ... changes from meadows to thick stands of tall ponderosa pines. It is classic volcanic highland, littered with cinder cones, extensive basalt flows, ...

A little-known volcano on a remote Pacific island may have been the source of one of the 19th century’s most powerful ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, which means it's shaped like a shield rather than a steep-sided cone volcano ... Take Iceland, for example. With the region facing numerous eruptions from ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.s. West Coast, and some scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before it erupts again – maybe even before ...