Volcanoes that have laid dormant for millions of years could revolutionize the sourcing of important rare earth elements, a ...

Doane saw only one way to explain the void. "The great basin," he wrote, "has been formerly one vast crater of a now extinct volcano." The lieutenant was right: Yellowstone is a volcano ...

If they haven't erupted during the Holocene, they are considered extinct. Sometimes people refer to volcanoes that haven't erupted in a long time as "dormant," but there's no scientific definition ...

VIENTIANE: Champassak provincial authorities plan to attract more visitors to an extinct volcano in Pakxong district by declaring it to be a provincial level tourist attraction. The volcano is ...

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 ...

VIENTIANE, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Authorities in southern Laos' Champasak province are working to develop facilities around an extinct volcano in Paksong district, upgrading the site to a provincial ...

This effect is not occasioned by the Upas tree, but by an extinct volcano near Batar, called Guava Upas. From the old crater and the adjoining valley is exhaled carbonic gas, such as often ...

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