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Taal (Volcano Week 3)

Taal Volcano is another active stratovolcano, this time on the island of Luzon in the Philippines, and at only 406 metres, it is known as the world’s smallest volcano. Actually Taal's crater has a lake in…

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Friday, 17th October 2008

Parícutin (Volcano Week 3)

Parícutin is a very young cinder cone volcano in Mexico, and like most cinder cones it will never erupt again - but the story of its creation is a truly fascinating one. On February 20, 1943,…

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Friday, 17th October 2008

Mount Taranaki/Egmont (Volcano Week 3)

Mount Taranaki/Egmont is another (apparently) active stratovolcano in New Zealand, but this one hasn't done anything at all since the early 1800s when it reportedly produced "a moderate ash eruption".1 Most interestingly from our perspective is…

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Friday, 17th October 2008

Whakaari/White Island (Volcano Week 3)

Whakaari/White Island (to give it its official title) is an active andesite stratovolcano 48 km from the east coast of the north island of New Zealand. The volcano reaches 321 m above sea level, but this…

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Friday, 17th October 2008

The Boiling Seas of Hawaii (Volcano Week 3)

It’s Volcano Week 3 here at GSS, which explains why our posts over the course of this week have been mostly volcano related. Kīlauea on the island of Hawaiʻi is often considered to be the world's…

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Thursday, 16th October 2008

Solfatara, Italy (Volcano Week 3)

It’s Volcano Week 3 here at GSS, which explains why all of our posts over the course of the week are very likely to be volcano related. In a suburb of Naples lies a shallow volcanic…

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Wednesday, 15th October 2008

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