Volcanoes
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and most are found underwater. For See more. The word volcano is derived from the name of Vulcano, a volcanic island in the Aeolian Islands of Italy whose name in turn comes from Vulcan, the god of fire in Roman mythology. The study of volcanoes is called See more. The most common perception of a volcano is of a conical mountain, spewing lava and poisonous gases from a crater at its summit however, this See more. Eruption styles are broadly divided into magmatic, phreatomagmatic, and phreatic eruptions. The intensity of explosive volcanism is See more. The Decade Volcanoes are volcanoes identified by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earths Interior IAVCEI as being worthy of particular study in See more. Accor
