The west coast of Scotland was erupting with lava fountains and other volcanic events 60 million years ago. The post ...

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.. Shield volcanoes, like Hawaii ...

Hawaii's Mauna Loa and Kilauea are both shield volcanoes. Though they don't form a classic cone shape, shield volcanoes can be massive: Mauna Loa has an estimated volume of 18,000 cubic miles ...

As glaciers melt around the world, long-dormant volcanoes may be waking up beneath the ice. New research reveals that massive ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, the receding ice could be setting off explosive eruptions in regions already dotted ...

Volcanoes with irregular or more elliptical openings didn’t typically form rings. When they did, these apertures warped the doughnut shape or caused the ring to wobble, the team reported.

Science Academy - Sponsored by Knova's Carpets (ktiv) Download the experiment instructions HERE!. Volcanoes are openings where lava, small rocks, and gas erupt from the Earth’s mantle between ...

The tallest volcano in Europe, Italy's Mount Etna, and the world's most active volcano, Kilauea in Hawaii, erupting again. ... Volcanoes form as the magma rises through the Earth's crust.

A study suggests that Venus' volcanic "pancake domes" push the planet's crust down, forming bulges toward the surface. This could explain a decades-old mystery.