
Mayon in eruption Jan 23. Photo courtesy Philstar Global. http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/01/24/1780930/mayon-volcano-spreads-lava-3-kilometers-crater
Mayon in eruption Jan 23. Photo courtesy Philstar Global. http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/01/24/1780930/mayon-volcano-spreads-lava-3-kilometers-crater
Volcán Chico, cinder cone on the north-eastern rim of the caldera Sierra Negra (© Michael R Perry, via wikimedia).
Sierra Negra volcano in the Galápagos Islands has piqued our attention once again. Reports of renewed activity are getting more convincing by the month. Here we are again – as advertised – at a “second largest caldera” or, more often even “second largest crater” in the world”… NOT! It seems that everyone accepts Yellowstone with its Continue Reading
Simplified map of volcanic fields in the western US that have been active during the Quaternary. http://geosphere.geoscienceworld.org/content/13/2/391/figures-only