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Which volcano is more hazardous? Mount Rainier or Mount Hood?
All the Cascades volcanoes are andesite composite cone stratovolcanoes, which means that, among other things, they have highly variable eruptive chemistry and behaviour.
Saint Helens has the most ...
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Why is there an "unnamed volcano" in Syria?
Here are some thoughts as they occur to me.
First, the Global Volcanism Program (GVP), which is the reference database in this matter, lists only one Holocene (i.e., considered active) volcano in ...
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