Cinder cone volcanoes form when solid pieces of lava, called cinders, erupt from a vent and collect around it. The volcanoes in the Canary Islands are cinder cones.

High viscosity magma creates steep-sided lava domes wherein low-viscosity magma produces cinder cones. Government Mountain is located in Kaibab National Forest in south-central Coconino County.

Specimens occur in volcanic tuff becoming larger and more plentiful along the 1 mile hike to the amphitheater or exposed interior of the cinder cone, which was caused by a phreatomagmatic eruption ...

Being among the U.S. national parks with active volcanoes, Lassen features all four types of volcanoes, including shield, plug dome, cinder cone, and composite.

A cinder cone volcano doesn’t have horizontal layers and has a steep conical hill of tephra, also known as volcanic debris, that accumulates around and downwind of a vent.

It takes hikers on a fascinating journey over volcanic cinder fields, leading to the base of an extinct volcano. While the volcano was only active for a few years, that was plenty of time for it to ...

The cinder cone behind the north vent is slumping as quick as it can be built up, lots of circumferential cracks. I bet material is sliding into the vent and altering the vent area dynamics–material ...

From Vesuvius to Laki, we've seen some monstrous eruptions of volcanoes throughout history. Most of these volcanoes are stratovolcanoes, meaning cone-shaped elevations that were built overtime from ...

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