Our group migrated southward to lower elevations for the remaining weeks of fieldwork on Guadalupe Island to investigate the southern shield volcano and an array of younger volcanic features. The ...

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What's more, you'll spend one night at Volcano House, a hotel on the rim of Kilauea. (When the shield volcano is active, you can take a nighttime stroll to see the lava flow.) Travelers say the ...

The intense seismicity and ground deformation along the East Rift Zone of Kilauea in the past couple of months is interpreted ...

This beautiful park is home to steaming fumaroles, wildflower-strewn meadows, clear mountain lakes, and numerous volcanoes, ...

Olympus Mons is not your typical volcano; rather, it is a shield volcano. Instead of spewing lava violently, lava slowly flows down its sides. This has resulted in the mountain having a low spat ...

A hiker's pack usually gets lighter over time as they plow through trail mix and water, but Annika Dechert likes to joke that ...

An Eastern Illinois University professor and NASA contractor is researching Venus from EIU’s backyard.  Geology professor ...

Geologists can use cosmic rays from outer space to piece together the timing of past geologic events, like volcanic eruptions ...

Today, the upper East Rift Zone is defined by some to end at Maunaulu, a shield that grew in 1969-1974 ... the south flank of Kilauea. Kilauea volcano is always in a constant state of balance ...