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Cerro Negro volcano Kilauea volcano pahoehoe Luzon, Philippines Momotombo Volcano and Momotombito Island, Nicaragua Mount Merapi Clark Air Base
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Also Known As volcanic activity • vulcanism

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volcanism and plate tectonics
Soufrière Hills, Montserrat
Cerro Negro volcano
Kilauea volcano
pahoehoe
Luzon, Philippines
Momotombo Volcano and Momotombito Island, Nicaragua
Mount Merapi
Clark Air Base
Mount Pinatubo
How volcanoes work, explained by a volcanologist
View original footage of Paricutín's nine-year volcanic eruption and the devastation experienced by surrounding communities
Learn about the volcanic collapse of Mount Mazama and Crater Lake caldera formation in Cascade Range
Discover the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, buried in volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted
Learn how basaltic rock composing the Columbia Plateau was once lava from a series of volcanic fissure eruptions
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
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Leopold, Baron von Buch
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Scrope, George Julius Poulett
George Julius Poulett Scrope
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Nikolay Aleksandrovich Kozyrev
Russian astronomer