A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a warrior's shield lying on the ground. It is formed by the eruption of highly fluid (low viscosity) lava, which travels ...

When a volcano erupts there can be lava, ash, steam or gaseous emissions. Sometimes eruptions are explosive and lava is thrown out as volcanic bombs. Hotspots are places where the magma rises up ...

Poland described the volcano as "fascinating " but reassured that it "doesn't really pose a hazard". The Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, similar to Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the world's most active ...

Researchers from the Ateneo de Manila University and the National University-Mall of Asia Campus have found that volcanic ash ...

At the heart of this landscape lies the Medicine Lake Volcano, a massive dormant shield volcano whose past ... One of the most iconic features, the Glass Mountain flow, is a 5.4-square-mile ...

Located on the Juan de Fuca Ridge in the Pacific Ocean, the underwater shield volcano last erupted in 2015, following previous eruptions in 1998 and 2011. The volcano, first detected in the 1970s ...

Deep below the Earth's surface, magma is churning and flowing into the Axial Seamount, an underwater shield ... features. Today, the Axial Seamount is the most well-instrumented underwater volcano ...

Poland described the volcano as "fascinating " but reassured it "doesn't really pose a hazard". The Axial Seamount is a shield volcano, akin to Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the world's most active volcano.