Sometimes, it takes a monumental event to spur Congress into establishing a national park. Such a significant event, or ...

A little-known volcano in the remote Kuril Islands, Zavaritzki, links an explosion in 1831 with drastic climate changes.

Cinder cones are simple volcanoes that form where vents, or openings, spit out ash and lava. They can be cone- or oval-shaped, usually with a bowl-like crater at their summits. When a cinder cone ...

Cinder cones: These are the simplest type of volcanoes. They are hills, often steep and formed by an accumulation of congealed lava around a vent. When a cinder cone erupts, the ground shakes as ...

Snow Canyon State Park is comprised of volcanic cinder cone, sand dunes, deep red and white sandstone cliffs, and twisted ...

Over that time its massive lava flows produced lava tubes, over 400 cinder cones, and volcanic vents which we now get to explore through activities such as hiking, biking, swimming and boating.

Everywhere, bright red volcanic cones and rugged black lava signalled the violent forces ... reduce evaporation and create rich loamy soils. The ”cinder“ would become a garden.

According to the US Geological Survey’s (USGS) Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, episode 12 of the Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began on ...