Composite volcanoes or stratovolcanoes ... Examples: Mount St. Helens, Mount Fuji, Mount Shasta, Mount Cotopaxi, Mount Hood and Mount Rainier. – Lava domes: These domes are small masses of ...

or composite conical volcano, composed of layers of volcanic material from past eruptions. Stratovolcanoes are quite common—Mount Fuji in Japan and Mount Rainier in the U.S. state of Washington ...

Mount Spurr, whose volcanic ash darkened Anchorage’s skies in 1953 and 1992, may be building toward another eruption, according to a statement issued Thursday by the Alaska Volcano Observatory.

Why it's awesome: Not all slugs blend into the background. Some, like the striking Mount Kaputar slug, stand out from the crowd. These slimy critters not only grow up to 8 inches (20 centimeters ...

A miles-wide volcano off Oregon’s coast could erupt “soon” say scientists who’ve been tracking it for decades. The Axial Seamount is a massive undersea volcano that reaches more than 3,600 ...

They detected these reservoirs below Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Hood, Newberry Volcano, Crater Lake and Lassen Peak. Three Sisters and Mount Shasta did not show similar patterns ...

The volcano “is released from the shackles — the shackles of injustice, of ignorance, of hate,” an official said Lu Huaiqian/Xinhua via Getty Mount Taranaki is officially a person.

housands of people declined on Thursday a government-led evacuation in North Maluku where a volcano has been spewing smoke and ash, arguing that they are accustomed to the eruptions. Mount Ibu ...

Mount Saint Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak are four of the active volcanoes in Washington state. The fifth, located less than 70 miles from Seattle, is Mount Rainier.

which along with nearby Pompeii was destroyed when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79AD. While the heat and ash from the volcano was catastrophic for the town, it preserved the scrolls - though in an ...

MANILA, Philippines — A 78-minute-long ash emission was observed from the crater of Kanlaon Volcano on Friday, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs).