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Croscat volcano
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The Croscat is a volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. It is both the youngest and highest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, with the last eruption dated back to about 11,500 years ago. The volcanic cone has a horseshoe shape and its northeastern flank was quarried for volcanic grave...
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Mount Bandai
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Mount Bandai is a stratovolcano in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. In a major eruption on July 15, 1888 the north and east parts of the caldera collapsed in a massive landslide, forming two lakes, Hibara-ko and Onogawa-ko, as well as several minor lakes called Goshiki-numa, or the 'Five Coloured Lake...
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Laki
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Laki or Lakagígar (Craters of Laki) is a volcanic fissure situated in the south of Iceland. On 8 June 1783, a fissure with 130 craters opened with phreatomagmatic explosions because of the groundwater interacting with the rising basalt magma. Over a few days the eruptions became less explosive, St...
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Monowai volcano
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Rise and fall of underwater volcano revealed The violent rise and collapse of an underwater volcano in the Pacific Ocean is captured in startling clarity for the first time. Researchers studying the Monowai volcano, near Tonga, recorded huge changes in height in just two weeks. [url=http://www...
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Mount Pelée
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Mount Pelée (French: Montagne Pelée "Bald Mountain") is an active volcano at the northern end of the island and French overseas department of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean. It is among the deadliest stratovolcanoes on Earth. An eruption on the 8th May, 19...
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Terrestrial Smoker
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Scientists Discover Land-based Version of Submarine Black Smokers Scientists have discovered a new type of hot spring along the banks of a volcanic lake in the Philippines. These "terrestrial smokers" are cousins to submarine black smokers, hydrothermal vents on the seafloor that s...
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1258 AD Eruption
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Title: ICE CORE AND PALAEOCLIMATIC EVIDENCE FOR THE TIMING AND NATURE OF THE GREAT MID-13TH CENTURY VOLCANIC ERUPTION Authors: CLIVE OPPENHEIMER Ice cores from both the Arctic and Antarctic record a massive volcanic eruption in around AD 1258. The inter-hemispheric transport of ash and sulphat...
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Super volcanoes
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Super volcanoes 'may be predicted' The eruption of some of the largest volcanoes on the planet could be predicted several decades before the event, according to researchers. Analysis of rock crystals from the Greek island of Santorini suggests eruptions are preceded by a fast bui...
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Ubehebe
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Explosive Volcano May Lurk Beneath Death Valley New evidence uncovered by a team of scientists at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory suggests the dramatic crater, called Ubehebe, last erupted only 800 hundred years ago. Although that may sound like ancient history, in geo...
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Zuidwal volcano
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The Zuidwal volcano is an extinct volcano in the Netherlands at more than 2 km below ground under the Wadden Sea, between Harlingen and Vlieland, just south west of the island Griend. The volcano was last active during the late Jurassic, (about 160 - 148 Ma ago) and has since been covered by about 2000 m...
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Volcanic dust
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Flying through ash clouds Imagine that the next time a volcano erupts in Iceland, the airlines are able to treat it as though it was no more than a simple weather hazard, like fog. Scientists working on an ash cloud detection system believe that airlines will soon be able to do just that. [url=http://w...
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Wandan mud dome
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Volcano spews mud, natural gas in Pingtung A mud volcano in southern Taiwan erupted yesterday, almost a year since its last eruption, the Central News Agency reported. The mud volcano in Wandan, Pingtung County, erupted around 3 a.m. near a cemetery area, ejecting mud and releasing natural gases,...
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Nyamuragira volcano
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Nyamuragira (Derived from the Kinyarwanda verb 'Kuragira inka', meaning to herd cows; Inka means cow or cows) is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated about 25 km north of Lake Kivu. It is in the Province of Nord-Kivu. [url=http://en.wikipedi...
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Volcan Parinacota
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Volcan Parinacota Parinacota is a massive stratovolcano on the border of Chile and Bolivia. It is part of the Nevados de Payachata group of volcanoes. The other major edifice in th...
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Fourpeaked Mountain
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Fourpeaked Mountain also known as Fourpeaked Volcano is an active stratovolcano in Alaska. The Alaska Volcano Observatory currently rates Fourpeaked as Aviation Alert Level Green and Volcanic-alert Level Normal. It is nearly completely covered by Fourpeaked Glacier. It was long a dormant vol...
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