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  2. Active volcano - Wikipedia

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    World map of active volcanoes and plate boundaries Kīlauea'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]

  3. Glossary of geography terms (A–M) - Wikipedia

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    This glossary of geography terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in geography and related fields, including Earth science, oceanography, cartography, and human geography, as well as those describing spatial dimension, topographical features, natural resources, and the collection, analysis, and visualization of geographic ...

  4. Volcanology - Wikipedia

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    A volcanologist is a geologist who studies the eruptive activity and formation of volcanoes and their current and historic eruptions. Volcanologists frequently visit volcanoes, especially active ones, to observe volcanic eruptions, collect eruptive products including tephra (such as ash or pumice), rock and lava samples. One major focus of ...

  5. Volcano - Wikipedia

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    Volcanoes vary greatly in their level of activity, with individual volcanic systems having an eruption recurrence ranging from several times a year to once in tens of thousands of years. [76] Volcanoes are informally described as erupting, active, dormant, or extinct, but the definitions of these terms are not entirely uniform among ...

  6. Category:Active volcanoes - Wikipedia

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    Active volcanoes — of the current Holocene Epoch; Subcategories. This category has the following 21 subcategories, out of 21 total. * Active volcanoes of the ...

  7. Texas has over 200 volcanoes. But are any of them active ...

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    The volcanic cone Puʻu ʻŌʻō stopped erupting as its crater floor collapsed, according to National Geographic. New eruptions are likely to happen in the future. New eruptions are likely to ...

  8. Stromboli - Wikipedia

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    September 2004 Stromboli eruption. Stromboli (/ ˈ s t r ɒ m b ə l i / STROM-bə-lee, Italian: [ˈstromboli]; Sicilian: Struògnuli [ˈʂː(ɽ)wɔɲɲʊlɪ]) is an island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing Mount Stromboli, one of the four active volcanoes in Italy.

  9. A powerful volcano is erupting. Here’s what that could mean ...

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    A volcanic eruption is essentially the only natural way for short-lived – less than a few years – gases like sulfur dioxide and water vapor to make it into the stratosphere.