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A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in a planet's surface or crust, which allows hot magma, volcanic ash and gases to escape from below the surface.
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Where it is not actually erupting, it rumbles and smolders in sullen resentment like a volcano, ready to explode at any moment.
* In the very south of the city, on the border with Wachtberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, is an extinct volcano the Rodderberg
* Parasitic cone ( or satellite cone ) is a geographical feature found around a volcano
The summit of this formation — as well as the highest point in the Sahara Desert — is Emi Koussi, a dormant volcano that reaches 3, 414 meters above sea level.
sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano
The higher altitudes of the islands are accessible on the islands of Fogo, where there is a road to the volcano and walks up to the crater, and the mountainous Santo Antão where there are hiking routes.
The Tilaran Range is part of the Continental Divide east of Lake Arenal and the nearby active volcano Arenal, and running into the Cordillera Central range further east.
Çatalhöyük is located overlooking wheat fields in the Konya Plain, southeast of the present-day city of Konya ( ancient Iconium ) in Turkey, approximately 140 km ( 87 mi ) from the twin-coned volcano of Mount Hasan.
Le Karthala ( 2316 m ) on Grande Comore is an active volcano.
cyclones possible during rainy season ( December to April ); Le Kartala on Grande Comore is an active volcano
* In Firewalker, a second-season episode of The X-Files, a silicon-based plant that infects humans parasitically through its spores is discovered living deep in a volcano.
A collapse is triggered by the emptying of the magma chamber beneath the volcano, usually as the result of a large volcanic eruption.
As a result, the magma is much less viscous than the magma of a rhyolitic volcano, and the magma chamber is drained by large lava flows rather than by explosive events.
Mars has the largest volcano in the Solar System called Olympus Mons, which is more than three times the height of Mount Everest, with a diameter of 520 km ( 323 miles ).
The westernmost group, near the Guatemalan border, contains Izalco and Santa Ana, which at 2, 365 meters is the highest volcano in El Salvador.
Mount Etna ( or Ætna ) is an active volcano on the east coast of Sicily.
As he walks towards it, he falls into the mouth of a volcano where he is surrounded by detonators, which are detonated when Okumura pushes a red button, thus creating a controlled volcanic eruption that traps Godzilla.
The only known active volcano in the area is Kick_ ' em_Jenny, just north between Grenada and Carriacou.
: Hurricanes ( June to October ); La Grande Soufrière is an active volcano
Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean.
The highest point in the country is Mount Fuji ( Fujisan, also erroneously called Fujiyama ), a volcano dormant since 1707 that rises to 3, 776 meters above sea level in Shizuoka Prefecture.
The island is mountainous, the highest summit being the Beerenberg volcano in the north.
Nord-Jan has a round shape and is dominated by the high Beerenberg volcano with its large ice cap (), which can be divided into twenty individual outlet glaciers.
It smells and smoulders like a volcano buried so long and deadly it is just beginning to wonder if it can explode.
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It provides the first detailed maps of the Martian surface, discovering much of the planet's topography, including the volcano Olympus Mons and the canyon system Valles Marineris, which is named in its honor.
The planet's southernmost active volcano, Erebus (), as well as the dormant volcano Terror (), are situated on the island.
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Because of the size of Olympus Mons and its shallow slopes, an observer standing on the Martian surface would be unable to view the entire profile of the volcano, even from a great distance.
In 1707 an undersea volcano breached the sea surface, forming the current centre of activity at Nea Kameni in the centre of the lagoon, and eruptions centred on it continue — the twentieth century saw three such, the last in 1950.
When it does reach the surface, a volcano is formed.
The island of Surtsey in the Atlantic Ocean is a basalt volcano which breached the ocean surface in 1963.
In time, subsidence carries the old volcano below the ocean surface and the barrier reef remains.
The surface expression is rarely preserved, but is usually similar to a maar volcano.
When the magma nears the top surface, it pools in a magma chamber under or within the volcano.
Tharun is linked to the surface of Ethra by a double-sided volcano.
This peak is actually an extinct volcano rising about above the plateau surface.
During the Apollo program, parts of the volcano that resemble the Moon's surface were used to train the astronauts.
The difference between these two rock types is: basalt rock forms on eruption of lava, that is, on the surface ( either out of a volcano, or through massive fissures — as in the Deccan basalts — in the ground ), while granite forms deep within the Earth.
Ponza and Gavi are the remains of a caldera rim of an extinct volcano, with a surface area of 7. 3 square kilometers.
Lava tubes are natural conduits through which lava travels beneath the surface of a lava flow, expelled by a volcano during an eruption.
Like most of the Tharsis region, Pavonis Mons has a high albedo ( reflectivity ) and low thermal inertia, indicating that the volcano and surrounding areas are covered with large amounts of fine dust ( see Martian surface ).
The volcano was originally called North Spot because it was the northernmost of only four spots visible on the surface due to a global dust storm that was then enshrouding the planet.
He, his nephew Axel ( Harry ), and their guide Hans descend into an extinct Icelandic volcano, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.
They usually begin at an extinct volcano, then meander and sometimes split as they are followed across the surface.
From 18 to 21 July 2012, Havre Seamount ( near Havre Rock ) erupted, breaching the ocean surface from a depth of more than 1100 m and producing a large raft of pumice floating northwest of the volcano.
As most local coral growth stops at about below the ocean surface, such a massive stony coral base suggests a gradual isostatic subsidence of the underlying extinct volcano, which itself rises from the surrounding ocean floor.
Magma reached the surface of the volcano around October 11, resulting in the building of a new lava dome on the existing dome's south side.
This brought its elevation to 1, 363 feet ( 415 m ) above the 1980 crater floor, approximately 2, 000 feet ( 610 m ) above the surface of the Crater Glacier, and 721 feet ( 220 m ) below the highest point of the volcano.
Rotating image of Io's surface ; the large red ring is around the volcano Pele ( volcano ) | Pele.
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