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The volcano is scientifically remarkable in that its relatively low-level and unusually persistent eruptive activity enables long-term volcanological study of a Strombolian eruptive system very close ( hundreds of metres ) to the active vents, a characteristic shared with only a few volcanos planetarily, such as Stromboli in Italy.
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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.
volcano and scientifically
The Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument was created to preserve the volcano and allow for its aftermath to be scientifically studied.
A pyroclastic flow ( also known scientifically as a pyroclastic density current ) is a fast-moving current of superheated gas and rock ( collectively known as tephra ), which reaches speeds moving away from a volcano of up to 700 km / h ( 450 mph ).
The volcano was not studied scientifically until 1884, when a team from the United States Geological Survey sampled its fulgurite.
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After the eruption of the volcano Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable series of red sunsets appeared worldwide.
It is one of a number of peaks in the McPherson Range, and is remarkable for its tiered summit, the eroded remnant of lava flows from the nearby Focal Peak shield volcano.
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It is formed from a multitude of water-courses which descend the slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes south of the gigantic volcano of Sangay ; but it soon reaches the plain, which commences where it receives its Cusulima branch.
From the north it is joined by the river Coca, having its sources in the gorges of Cayambe ( volcano ) on the equator, and also a powerful river, the Aguarico, having its headwaters between Cayambe and the Colombian frontier.
As a shield volcano, Olympus Mons resembles in its morphology the large volcanoes making up the Hawaiian Islands.
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.
It has its headwaters in the Ecuadorian province of Cotapaxi, flowing off of the northwestern slopes of the volcano Cotopaxi and known as the Patate River.
Teide, a dormant volcano, is the highest peak of Spain and the third largest volcano in the world from its base.
The most common perception of a volcano is of a conical mountain, spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater at its summit.
* February 25-Parícutin active volcano in Michoacán, west central Mexico ceases its discontinuous eruption after spewing forth a gigaton of lava and burying San Juan Parangaricutiro.
This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.
Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano erupted in this way in the 19th century, as did Mount Tarawera, New Zealand in its violent 1886 eruption.
Today the volcano has regained its status as active.
* The most outstanding feature in San Salvador and the metropolitan area is the Boquerón Volcano, although the San Salvador municipality only has territory on its foothills, the volcano can't be missed from the majority of the city due to its height of 1, 893 meters ( 6, 211 feet ) above sea level.
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 river rises from its source in central Java at the Lawu volcano, then flows north and eastward to its mouth in the Java Sea near the city of Surabaya.
The most prominent of them are Further south are Nikolayevskaya Sopka ( notable for its ski jumping tracks ), Karaulnaya Gora and Chornaya Sopka, the latter being an extinct volcano.
* Slieve Gullion, extinct volcano with crater lake, highest burial cairn in Ireland, views of 9 counties, with visitor centre at its foot
The famous dormant volcano Puy-de-Dôme ( 10 km from the city ) is one of the highest of these and well known for the telecommunication antennas that sit on its top and are visible from far away.
The landscape of Hamilton was formed by the last eruption of the Lake Taupo volcano complex 1800 years ago which sent waves of volcanic debris northwards and changed the path of the Waikato River to its present path.
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