However, this new research focused on the Atlantic plate, and more specifically, the Lesser Antilles volcanic arc, located at the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea. It is part of a subduction zone ...

Dominica has an abundance of volcanic activity, with nine (9) potentially active volcanoes, many of which have highly active volcanic-hydrothermal systems. The waters are predominantly acid-sulphate ...

The volcano was dormant for decades but started to become active in December ... Most of the Lesser Antilles islands are part of a long volcanic arc in the Eastern Caribbean.

Show more The volcanic islands of the Lesser Antilles, built by eruptions and shaped by the ocean surrounding them, are some of the most biodiverse landscapes of the Caribbean, where humans have ...

The Caribbean plate is being pushed ... Earth's mantle and fuel the many active volcanoes in the region. All of this pushing and pulling formed the distinctive arc shape of the Caribbean islands ...

Kick 'em Jenny, which rises 1.3km above the seafloor on a steep slope of the Lesser Antilles ridge, is one of the most active volcanoes in the eastern Caribbean. It has erupted at least a dozen ...