Lava domes are rounded, steep-sided mounds built by magma that is highly resistant to flow, usually either dacite or rhyolite. Such magmas are typically too viscous to move far from the vent ...

In 2002 the volcano shot more than 15 million cubic yards of lava into downtown Goma, destroying 14,000 homes, burying buildings to the top of the first floor, and forcing 350,000 citizens to flee.

Mr. Curtis will start at once for Hawaii, where he will construct for the Museum a model of the great volcano ... through the welling up of molten lava. Mr. Curtis's model will be 12 by 8 feet ...

So, as if to compensate, Volcano amplifies its molasses-slow lava menace with random lava bombs that fall (with hilarious ...

shield volcanoes and lava domes. Their type is determined by how the lava from an eruption flows and how that flow affects the volcano, and, as a result, how it affects its surrounding environment.

Most of us will never get up close and personal with a volcano or its lava, and honestly, I think that’s a good thing. If you ...

The park's namesake peak is the one of the largest plug dome volcanoes in the world — a type of volcano that grows in size from layers of its own lava building on top of each other over time.

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupted in early May, sending a smoldering flow of lava into residential areas on the Big Island. Authorities ordered people living in Leilani Estates and Lanipuna ...

A volcano in the Philippines has begun spewing lava, as authorities warn that a "hazardous eruption" is possible "within hours or days". In the early hours of Monday, a weak flow of lava began ...

Lava is the word for magma when it erupts onto the Earth's surface. Geologists also use the term to describe the solidified deposits of lava flows and fragments hurled into the air by explosive ...