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 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 ...

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, ...

We know very little about dinosaur parental care after hatching. Behaviour doesn’t fossilize well. As the eggs appear to have survived mostly complete, it is likely that the young immediately left the ...

Hunting supplemented the meat. Caribou meat was especially valued. Seal meat was eaten when caribou was not available, but was not the preferred meat: the manors mostly ate caribou, the poorer farms ...

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 ...

Tor Zawar is a steep mountain side some 40 km northeast of the city of Quetta. A major earthquake (M6) had hit the region two years earlier, in October 2008. A small earthquake was reported in the ...

It must be the only volcano named after a British ambassador to Spain. Mount St Helens was also known as the Mount Fuji of America: a perfect cone standing above the country side. The 1980 eruption ...

Toba has the typical internal plumbing of large caldera systems. It crowns an uplifted area of Sumatra that is 220 × 100 km across, linked to intrusions and crustal thickening. A deeper reservoir of ...

In the previous installment, we said that there were two main sources of volcanism, tectonic driven or hotspot driven. In order to simplify things, we will examine the life cycle of an Arc Volcano, ...