An international team of volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse ...

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor ... That eruption created Iceland's biggest basalt lava flow in more than 230 years ...

This week's contribution is from Ninfa Bennington, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Yellowstone caldera is one of the largest volcanic systems in the ...

Two broad categories of eruption, effusive and explosive, can describe the habits of a particular volcano. Effusive eruptions involve the outpouring of basaltic lava that flows quite easily and ...

The underwater volcano Axial Seamount is on the brink of eruption. Scientists warn that the eruption is inevitable. The ...

If there's one thing you, and Gollum, should know about volcanoes, it's that "lava ... The most common type of lava flow is basaltic, making up around 90 percent of all lava flows on the planet.

1 /2 Video by U.S. Geological Survey U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A screenshot of the livestream of Kilauea Volcano shows lava fountaining this morning. 2 /2 U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A screenshot of the ...