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 |