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  2. Lists of volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Map of Earth's plate boundaries and active volcanoes More detailed map showing volcanoes active in the last 1 ... Volcano World; Volcano photos by country (geographic ...

  3. Active volcano - Wikipedia

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    World map of active volcanoes and plate boundaries KÄ«lauea's lava entering the sea Lava flows at Holuhraun, Iceland, September 2014. An active volcano is a volcano that has erupted during the Holocene (the current geologic epoch that began approximately 11,700 years ago), is currently erupting, or has the potential to erupt in the future. [1]

  4. List of submarine volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Map of world's major seamounts. A list of active and extinct submarine volcanoes and seamounts located under the world's oceans. There are estimated to be 40,000 to 55,000 seamounts in the global oceans. [1] Almost all are not well-mapped and many may not have been identified at all. Most are unnamed and unexplored.

  5. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the divergent plate boundaries (oceanic spreading ridges) and recent sub-aerial volcanoes (mostly at convergent boundaries) According to the theory of plate tectonics, Earth's lithosphere, its rigid outer shell, is broken into sixteen larger and several smaller plates.

  6. List of volcanoes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Jornada del Muerto Volcano: 1,565: 5,136 760,000 years ago ...

  7. Timeline of volcanism on Earth - Wikipedia

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    United States Geological Survey; Cascades Volcano Observatory, Vancouver, Washington; Index to CVO online volcanoes. Map: Tom Simkin, Robert I. Tilling, Peter R. Vogt, Stephen H. Kirby, Paul Kimberly, and David B. Stewart, Third Edition (Published 2006) interactive world map of Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Impact Craters, and Plate Tectonics

  8. List of stratovolcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Largest volcano in Europe by area, [18] and includes the peaks Plomb du Cantal and Puy Mary. Most recent eruption occurred 2-3 MYA. Puy de Sancy, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Both the tallest mountain in the Massif Central and volcano in France. [19] Most recent eruption occurred 200 thousand years ago. Monts Dore; Mont Ross; Gallieni Massif

  9. Supervolcano - Wikipedia

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    A supervolcano is a volcano that has had an eruption with a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 8, [1] the largest recorded value on the index. This means the volume of deposits for such an eruption is greater than 1,000 cubic kilometers (240 cubic miles).