Volcanoes are rumbling as scientists monitor earthquakes at Washington's Mount Rainier and Alaska's Iliamna volcano.

IN my discourse this evening I shall confine myself to that branch of vulcanology to which I have paid attention, viz. the naked-eye study of volcanoes and their various constituent parts, their ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

Volcanoes of North America; a Reading Lesson for Students of Geography and Geology. By Israel C. Russell, Professor of Geology, University of Michigan, Pp. xiv + 346.

Travel deep into the heart of Indonesia, a nation of extraordinary contrasts where fire meets water and untamed nature ...

GEOQUIZ: Which country has the highest number of active volcanoes? Answer: Indonesia. The South Asian country has an estimated 130 active volcanoes, some of which are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

The region is crossed by a 1,300 kilometers (800 miles) long chain of Cascades volcanoes, which extends from northern California to southern British Columbia.During the past 4,000 years, periods ...

Three remote Alaska volcanoes — Pavlof, Great Sitkin , and Semisopochnoi — are in various states of eruption, one producing lava and the other two blowing steam and ash.

What's more, each year since 1991, between 56 to 88 volcanoes have erupted on our planet. And in the last 12,000 years, some 1,350 volcanoes have been active.

The NASA Odyssey orbiter, which launched in 2001 from Cape Canaveral, snapped a 1st-ever image of a Mars volcano peeking above the clouds before dawn.

To prepare our young people, we owe them a high-quality geography education. getty. When you hold a pencil, you hold the world in your hands. Its raw ingredients make a far-reaching journey around ...