Investigating the causes and consequences of volcanoes and featuring case studies from the Canary Islands, The Democratic Republic of the Congo and Iceland. Below earth’s surface, in the upper mantle, ...

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One of the dangers of volcanoes is that many of them don’t erupt often enough to remind people of the hazards of living nearby. Take Popocatépetl, for example. This active volcano (nicknamed “Popo”) ...

Kilauea’s volcanic lava flows are not only burning down Hawaiian homes on their path towards the Pacific Ocean but also creating new territory, adding landmass to the American state and making the Big ...

PROF. RUSSELL'S beautiful volume is, in some sense, a companion to Sir Archibald Geikie's account of the volcanoes of Great Britain; but whereas the latter deals with volcanic relics of all ages in an ...