This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

Mount Shasta is composed of four overlapping cones, or five if you count the destroyed cone of ancestral Shasta, which together form the main peak Shasta and the satellite cone Shastina. At 3,760 ...

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

Welcome to the Volcano Café bar, a place for all things on or off topic and inane ramblings. There has been a need of late to find a place better suited to various theories, long comments and ...

The volcano is situated on a narrow isthmus on the island of Flores. The volcano is not one of the more visually impressive and is only 1 703 meters high. Before eruptive behavior started on the 29 th ...

Rhyolite has more silica, this makes it more viscous, more explosive and in turn more dangerous. Basalt is the opposite, fluid, well-behaved, safe. This could be a phrase out of any geology textbook, ...

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May In the previous posts we looked at the Eifel volcanics, the Laacher See (the largest eruption in western Europe for the past 1000 centuries), and volcanic ...

Deception Island Let’s get back to the real world. Deception Island measures 14 by 13 km. It is the tip of a mountain which measures 25 kilometers across: it is a substantial volcano. The central bay ...

We know very little about dinosaur parental care after hatching. Behaviour doesn’t fossilize well. As the eggs appear to have survived mostly complete, it is likely that the young immediately left the ...