This is a repost from the archives, an older post by Henrik which has been updated to reflect more recent findings. Did you know there are 255 volcanoes or volcanic features listed in the US?

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 ...

Prominence It makes sense to look beyond the elevation of a volcano to judge its size. Europe’s largest volcano is not Etna. There are several higher volcanoes in the continent, with Elbrus as the ...

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 ...

October 12, 1918 was just another Saturday. On the fields of France, the Hundred Days Offensive was turning a war which would now soon end, but leave 17 million dead; the devastation would set the ...

On the satellite image (which predates Leilani), the extent of the lava flows give a good indication of which volcano rules which area. The edge of Kilauea’s dominion is clearly visible. The lava ...

The main problem of submarine volcanoes are that they for obvious reasons are neither well-studied nor easily monitored. Thus our knowledge of them as compared with volcanoes such as Etna, Vesuvius or ...

The rivers feed the same large body of water at their terminus, though with different entry points. The original Aral Sea is (or was, around 1960) a brackish-water lake covering an area of 67,499 km 2 ...

The islands are surrounded by ~1–2 m deep, 200–500 m wide and 8–15 km long scours into the channel floor. These scours form flow lines which curve around the islands. To create the islands required ...

In 536, a worldwide haze appeared out of the blue. There are many reports from the Mediterranean. The Byzantine Procopius wrote “during this year a most dread portent took place. For the sun gave ...