but they didn't know it was a volcano. We now know that Beacon Rock was a cinder cone volcano that grew here inside of the gorge 57,000 years ago during the Ice Age. And yet, when you climb to the ...

Around 900 years ago, a volcano – which has come to be called Sunset Crater – erupted and transformed the encircling area. Geologic features like cinders, lava rock and lava flow compose this ...

Visitors can explore some of the most distinctive rocks anywhere in California ... are excellent examples of a type of volcano called a "cinder cone." Cinder cone volcanoes tend to be steep ...

Volcanic cinders, or rocks, flew 1.3 kilometers. A large volume of volcanic ash is also floating northeast, meteorological officials said. The ash is expected to fall in Kagoshima, Kirishima and ...

Many are familiar with the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD that destroyed Pompeii. But centuries earlier, Vesuvius also sent ...

Cinder cones are the smallest and simplest type of volcano. But that doesn't mean they can't pack a punch. Best described as steep, conical hills, cinder cones are formed by pyroclastic rock ...