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 ...

Iceland has seen some major volcanic activity in the last couple of years. Travel expert Rick Steves has some advice for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The new Sáttítla Highlands National Monument encompasses volcanic terrain, including cinder cones—steep ... Additionally, the porous volcanic rock plays a critical role in recharging aquifers ...

“At night it turned red, and you could hear the volcano spewing out rocks,” said Cahuatijo ... Little by little, they built a two-story cinder block home in San Luis — which is now turning ...

Flaxen grasses dust black and red volcanic gravel ... in the distance, a smaller cinder cone — the Roden Crater — that would come to occupy most of his life. “Quite a view,” he says.

Rescuers helped an injured hiker and their climbing partner off Black Butte's treacherously icy trail. What makes Mt.

The Siskiyou County Sheriff's Office warned the public the cinder cone is still part of ... smaller than it's towering 14,179-foot neighbor, volcanic Mt. Shasta, Black Butte's trail is no easy ...