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Volcanoes in Ethiopia Shook Up Early Human Evolution Dramatic and rapid changes from volcanic activity in Ethiopia appear to have set the stage for the emergence of Homo sapiens around 200,000 years ago. The first known fossil evidence for our species was unearthed there, where explosive volcani...
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Mount Aso
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A small eruption at Mount Aso on the 15th May, 2011, has produced a 500 meter ash cloud. The Japanese Meteorological Agency (JMA) has raised the alert status to Level 2 (Do not approach the crater) for the Volcano. Mount Aso is the largest acti...
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Mount Meager
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Mount Meager, originally known as Meager Mountain, is a volcanic massif in the Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. Part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc of western North America, it is located 150 km north of Vancouver at the northern end of the Pemberton Vall...
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Cumbre Vieja (Spanish: Old Summit) is an active volcanic ridge on the volcanic ocean island of Isla de La Palma in the Canary Islands. This ridge trends in an approximate north-south direction and covers the southern third of the island. It is lined by several volcanic craters. [url=http://en.wik...
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Kilbourne Hole
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Kilbourne Hole is not your usual volcano If you had flown over the desert southwest of Las Cruces 80,000 years ago, you might have been in for a surprise. Welling up from deep beneath the surface, 2,000-degree magma reached the groundwater, flashing it instantly to steam. Unable to escape, the steam...
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Cook seamount
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Deep-Sea Volcano a Hotspot for Mysterious Life Scientists aboard the vessel Pisces V visited the volcano earlier this month to examine its geological features and its rich variety of marine life, and an Associated Press reporter was given exclusive access to the dive. It was the first-ever expedi...
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Momotombo
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Momotombo is a stratovolcano in Nicaragua, not far from the city of León. An eruption of the volcano in 1610 forced inhabitants of the Spanish city of León to relocate about 30 miles west. It also erupted in 1886, 1905, and most recently December 1, 2015. Read more Momotombo Volcano erupts in Nicaragu...
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Kanlaon Volcano
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Kanlaon Volcano, also spelled as Kanla-on or Canlaon, is an active volcano on Negros island in central Philippines. The stratovolcano straddles the provinces of Negros Occidental and Negros Oriental Read more
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Calbuco volcano
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Calbuco is a stratovolcano in southern Chile, located southeast of Llanquihue Lake and northwest of Chapo Lake, in the Los Lagos Region. Read more
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North Sea Dome
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The central North Sea Dome is a composite dome comprising the Triple Junction Dome, the Central Graben Dome and the Friesland Dome. Read more
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Ok volcano
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Ok (rhyming with 'talk') is a 1198 meters high dormant shield volcano with a central crater located to the west of Langjökull in the west of Iceland. In Icelandic Ok means load or yoke. The volcano erupted during interglacials in the Pleistocene (2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago). A late Pleistocene er...
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Tamu Massif
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Underwater volcano is Earth's biggest Geophysicists have discovered what they say is the largest single volcano on Earth, a 650-kilometre-wide beast the size of the British Isles lurking beneath the waters of the northwest Pacific Ocean. The megavolcano has been inactive for some 140 million ye...
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Mullingar volcanoes
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330 million year old volcanoes discovered near Mullingar, Co Westmeath A low flying aircraft using the latest mapping technology has uncovered the 330 million-year-old rock formations on the Westmeath / Offaly border south of Mullingar. It also showed bands of volcanic rocks several kilometre...
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Flood Volcanoes
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NASA Simulation Indicates Ancient Flood Volcanoes Could Have Altered Climate The eruptions of El Chichon and Pinatubo were powerful enough to propel their gases into the stratosphere, which gave them the potential to alter short-term climate. Another type of volcano called a "flood-basa...
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Siberian flood basalts
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What a 250 million-year-old volcanic explosion tells us about climate change What can a volcanic explosion 250 million years ago tells us about climate change? According to planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton, director of Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration,...
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