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Volcano
A vent or opening in a planet's surface that lets out pressurized molten rocks or magma, and gases from the inner core. Volcanoes come in various shapes and structure, but the most common ones are mountain-like structures with a crater at the summit.
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Mount St. Helens
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount St. Helens is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle, Washington, and 50 ...
Mauna Loa
Natural environment; Volcano
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that form the Island of Hawaiiin the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi in the Pacific Ocean. Mauna Loa is the largest subaerial volcano in both mass and volume, and has ...
Mount Pinatubo
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Pinatubo is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Luzon, near the tripoint of the Philippine provinces of Zambales, Tarlac, and Pampanga. It is located in the Cabusilan Mountains ...
Krakatoa
Natural environment; Volcano
Krakatoa is a volcanic island situated in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. The name is also used for the surrounding island group comprising the remnants of a ...
Kilauea
Natural environment; Volcano
Kilauea is a shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands, the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi. Located along the southern shore of the island, the volcano is ...
Mount Pelee
Natural environment; Volcano
Mount Pelee is an active volcano at the northern end of the island and French overseas department of Martinique in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean. Its volcanic cone is composed of ...
Piton de la Fournaise
Natural environment; Volcano
Piton de la Fournaise is a shield volcano on the eastern side of Reunion island in the Indian Ocean. It is currently one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
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