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Volcanologist Janine Krippner dives into the details of how volcanoes work and the...
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The eruption of Paricutín lasted for nine years and produced one of the world's youngest...
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Crater Lake is located within a huge volcanic caldera in the Cascade Range of southwestern
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Learn about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii, which was buried in volcanic ash when...
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The Columbia Plateau was formed by volcanic eruptions and subsequently reshaped by...
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Volcanic activity at Kilauea in Hawaii.
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Spectacular fountainlike eruptions at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, are followed by streams...
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Lava flowing toward the sea from Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, takes two recognizable...
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Experiment showing how pine trees become temporarily sterile when exposed to intense...
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Pahoehoe and aa lava flows at Mauna Ulu, Hawaii.
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At the margins of Earth's plates, where two plates pull apart or one plate dives...
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Geysers in Yellowstone National Park, northwestern Wyoming, U.S.
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Stratovolcanoes tend to form at subduction zones, or convergent plate margins, where...
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Volcano in the Soufrière Hills of Montserrat, erupting on January 23, 2010.
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Eruption of Cerro Negro volcano, Nicaragua, November 1969. Cerro Negro is a cinder...
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Basaltic lava erupting from the Pu'u 'O'o spatter and cinder cone on Kilauea volcano,...
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Pahoehoe lava flow, Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, November 1985. Pahoehoe lava flows are...
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Farmer on a water buffalo in a ripening rice field near Mayon Volcano, southern Luzon,...
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Momotombo Volcano (left) and Momotombito Island, viewed across Lake Managua, Nicaragua.
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Eruption of Mount Merapi, Central Java, Indonesia, May 2006.
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Buildings and vegetation at Clark Air Base, Philippines, destroyed by a thick, wet...
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A column of gas and ash rising from Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines on June 12,...
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Figure 2: The north face of Mt. St. Helens in June 1970. The summit elevation was...
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Mount St. Helens volcano, viewed from the south during its eruption on May 18, 1980.
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A cloud of ash and pumice rises into the air on July 22, 1980, following an explosive...
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The lava dome of Mount St. Helens, May 16, 1984. Following the great eruption of...
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Ol Doinyo Lengai, volcano near Lake Natron, northern Tanzania.
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Old Faithful geyser, Upper Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, U.S.
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Volcano Island rises from Taal Lake, which fills a broad, shallow caldera created...
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Computer-generated image of the summit area of Lō‘ihi, a submarine volcano southeast...
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Colour lithograph of the eruption of Krakatoa (Krakatau) volcano, Indonesia, 1883;...
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Volcanoes and thermal fields that have been active during the past 10,000 years.
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Global seismic centres for earthquakes of magnitude 5.5 and greater occurring between...
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Figure 1: A schematic representation of the biogeochemical cycle of carbon.
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Volcanic eruptions may fall into six major types: Icelandic, Hawaiian, Strombolian,...
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Carbon is transported in various forms through the atmosphere, the hydrosphere, and...
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The landforms shown at left and right are vertically exaggerated, and those shown...
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