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Volcanoes - Mountain-bulding in real-time
Imagine looking out your window one morning to discover smoke and ash rising out of your back yard. Then, within the year, your neighbourhood is covered by a rising volcano. Years later, the volcano has risen hundreds of metres and annihililated whole communities. This is what happened in Mexico in the 1940s and can happen anywhere volcanoes are prevalent.
- Animated guide: Volcanoes
- Volcanoes - Earth's Fiery Power
- Volcanoes 101
- Volcanoes and Volcanic Eruptions
- Volcano
- Volcano facts and types
- Kilauea volcano lava flow again threatening sole access roads to Pahoa town and Hawaii Island’s eastern tip
- Mauna Loa Shield Volcano
- Volcanology of Canada
- Rift Valley Dynamics - How satellites are measuring ground deformation around volcanoes
VID (7min) - East Africa's Great Rift Valley
Supervolcanoes - Earth's greatest eruptions
Imgine a volcano 10 to 100 times the size fo the volcanoes we see today. That's a supervolcano and one of them is right under Yellowstone National Park in the United States.
28min