The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

Welcome to the Volcano Café bar, a place for all things on or off topic and inane ramblings. There has been a need of late to find a place better suited to various theories, long comments and ...

The age of the subducting oceanic crust ranges from 27 million years old in the south to 80 million years old to the north. The East Scotia Ridge spreading centre cuts through the Scotia Plate from ...

The convent and monastery were closed in the reformation of 1550. But life continued, punctuated by eruptions from Katla. The next big problem though came from the other mountains, from Grimsvotn. By ...

The volcano is situated on a narrow isthmus on the island of Flores. The volcano is not one of the more visually impressive and is only 1 703 meters high. Before eruptive behavior started on the 29 th ...

The first fact is a really important thing that I spend a lot of time arguing with people about. This was not an eruption. For most people this sound counter-intuitive, after all the mountain did hurl ...

Rhyolite has more silica, this makes it more viscous, more explosive and in turn more dangerous. Basalt is the opposite, fluid, well-behaved, safe. This could be a phrase out of any geology textbook, ...

History By 79 AD, Vesuvius was not considered an active volcano. It had been silent for long enough that it was seen as extinct, insofar that concept existed. There had been earthquakes in the decades ...

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May In the previous posts we looked at the Eifel volcanics, the Laacher See (the largest eruption in western Europe for the past 1000 centuries), and volcanic ...