A cinder cone in Little Lakes, California | A view of Kilauea caldera, Hawaii | Life returning to the lava in Hawaii |
Mauna Loa is a shield volcano on the island of Hawaii | St. Augustine, a strato volcano in Alaska | A Tephra Eruption |
An Eruption at Mauna Loa, Hawaii | Wizard Island, in Crater Lake, is in Oregon | El Misti, an extinct strato volcano in the Cordillera Occidental, Southern Peru |
A view of Kilauea Caldera, Hawaii | Another view of Kilauea Caldera | A black sand beach, made of tiny lava chunks |
The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Washington state |
Mt. Fuji, a dormant strato volcano in Japan | Koryakskaya
Volcano, a volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula |
Licancabur Volcano, a strato volcano in the Atacama desert, in Chile | Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, on Antarctica | Mt. Rainier, a strato volcano in the Cascade Range, Washington state |
Mt. Shasta, the southernmost volcano in the Cascade range, is in California | Mt. Taranaki, also called Mt. Egmont, is an extinct volcano on the northern tip of New Zealand | Molten Pahoehoe lava |
Pahoehoe lava in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park | Santa Ana Volcano, a volcano in El Salvador, is also the highest peak in that country | A volcanic eruption in Kilauea, Hawaii |
A lava flow at night during a volcanic eruption at Mt. Etna, Sicily | A shuttle view of Mt. Etna, Sicily during an eruption | A satellite picture of Merapi, Indonesia |
Merapi is the most active volcano in Indonesia and is located in central Java |
Molten lava pouring out of the crater of Merapi |
Mt. Etna on the Italian island of Sicily |
An aerial view of Mt. Etna | The 1943- 1952 eruption of Paricutin volcano is Mexico inundated this church in lava |
Pahoehoe lava in Hawaii with extinct shield volcano Mauna Kea in the background |
A 1993 ashy eruption of Mt. Mayon on the Phillipino island of Luzon |
Devils Tower National Monument is the core of an extinct plug volcano that eroded away, leaving just the core |
The volcanic landscape of the Galapagos islands in the Pacific |
A model of Axial Seamount, a seamount off the coast of Oregon | Another model of Axial Seamount. The long finger type dent in the middle is a rectangular caldera. |
A view of Karymsky, the most active volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula |
A view of Karymsky's deep crater | An eruption of Sakura-Jima | An aerial view of Sakura-Jima |
The 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens | An island forms off the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima |
San Cristobal, in the Los Marrabios range of Nicaragua |
Pico de Teide is a dormant volcano on the Spanish Island of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands | A cinder cone in the crater of Mauna Loa |
Mt. Egmont, in New Zealand rises in the Taranaki region of the North Island |
The Mexican volcanoes Popocatepetl, left, and Ixtaccihuatl, right, loom over corn fields |
The Mexican Strato volcano Popocatepetl towers over a factory |
Lake
Taal, a crater lake, with active volcanic island, Volcano Island, which has yet another crater lake inside it |
Venusian volcano Gula Mons in the background, and Venusian impact crater Cunitz in the foreground |
Capulin volcano, a dormant volcano in Northeast New Mexico, is a perfect example of a Cinder Cone |
Another view of Capulin volcano |
A
vent of Medicine Lakes volcano in Lava Beds Nat. Mon., California |
A lava tube at Lava Beds Nat. Mon., California |
Crater Lake, Oregon used to be huge volcano Mt. Masazi |
A view of Crater Lake. The island in the center is Wizard Is. | A cinder cone in Lassen Volcanic National Monument | Lassen Peak is probably the world's largest plug volcano |
Mt. Rainier, in Washington state | Another view of Mt. Rainier | Yet another view of Mt. Rainier |
The 1917 eruption of Lassen Peak, California | A view of Capulin Volcano cinder cone | Another view of Capulin volcano cinder cone |