This lava field includes at least 60 flows ranging from 15,000 to 2,100 years old.
Published Oct 13, 2009
In western New Mexico, the landscape’s long volcanic history can be explored above and below the ground.
Published Feb 21, 2016
Fresh lava flows radiate from Kilauea’s Pu’su ’O’o, crater, as the Volcano’s longstanding eruption continues.
Published Nov 13, 2011
Low-viscosity lava flows produce long, narrow shapes on the landscape.
Published Nov 22, 2013
Fresh lava flows cover the slopes of Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano.
Published Nov 4, 2010
Pu'u 'O'o and the Thanksgiving Eve Breakout vent on Kilauea--two centers of volcanic activity--emit steam and other gases in this satellite image.
Published Nov 5, 2009
Satellite view of fresh lava flows from recent activity at Kilaue’s Pu’u O’o Crater.
Published Sep 9, 2011
A jet black plateau in central Libya harks back to a time when lava flowed across the dry landscape.
Published Apr 28, 2016
Old, hardened lava flows extend from the caldera of Medicine Lake volcano in northern California.
Published Oct 10, 2017
The Hell’s Half Acre Lava Field is the youngest and easternmost lava flow associated with the Snake River Plain basalts.
Published Nov 17, 2008
A team of NASA scientists headed to Holuhraun because the volcano has geologic cousins on Mars.
Published Oct 9, 2018
Though its name might suggest something formed by the meandering of an ancient river, the Snake River Plain of southern Idaho had a far more violent birth. Scars from its relatively recent geologic origin are printed on its surface.
Published Oct 11, 2008
Although most of Krakatau disappeared in the gigantic eruption of 1883, the volcano lives on in the frequent eruptions of Anak Krakatau (Child of Krakatau).
Published Sep 5, 2012
Viscous, slow-moving lava flows form circular mounds known as lava domes.
Published Nov 21, 2013
A 1666 eruption in what is now the northeast corner of Lassen Volcanic National Park flattened forests and created a new lake.
Published Mar 11, 2018
Molten rock meets the sea in the latest episode in a long-lived eruption.
Published Nov 20, 2016
Overlapping lava flows on Kilauea Volcano illustrate the formation of the Hawaiian Islands.
Published Jan 5, 2013
