The scene: a tent on Mount Erebus, an active volcano ... (Ross’s other ship, the H.M.S. Terror, gave its name to a smaller, extinct volcano that stands next to Erebus.) But no one reached ...

"The great basin," he wrote, "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano." The lieutenant ... was a thousand times the size of the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980, which killed ...

Name: Mount Kaputar pink slug (Triboniophorus sp ... These distinctive hot-pink slugs are found only on an extinct volcano ...

Mount Otemanu is one of two peaks of an extinct volcano located at the center of the island. Rising 2,400-some feet above the lagoon, this volcanic remnant makes for a dramatic photo op or an ...

At 5,199 m, Mount Kenya is the second highest peak in Africa. It is an ancient extinct volcano, which during its period of activity (3.1-2.6 million years ago) is thought to have risen to 6,500 m.

Extinct volcanoes have not erupted in human history and will probably not do so again. An example in the United States is Mount Thielsen ... not as scarce as their name suggests—they're found ...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Scientists provided an update Thursday on the chances of an eruption of the Mount Spurr volcano in Alaska, a situation being closely monitored by officials in Anchorage ...