SCIENCE P.T.
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PARÍCUTIN
Parícutin is a dormant cinder cone
volcano located in the Mexican state
Remarkable of Michoacán, near the city of
Uruapan and about 322 kilometers
west of Mexico City. The volcano
Volcanoes surged suddenly from the cornfield
of local farmer Dionisio Pulido in
1943, attracting both popular and
scientific attention. It is also believed
to be the youngest volcano in the
KIRSTAN MARU A. TORRES world.
CINDER CONE VOLCANO
MT. UNZEN
Mount Unzen is an active volcanic
group of several overlapping
stratovolcanoes, near the city of
Shimabara, Nagasaki on the island
of Kyushu, Japan's southernmost
main island. The oldest volcanic
deposits in the region date from
over 6 million years ago, it is also
believed to be oldest volcano in the
world.
COMPOSITE VOLCANO
TAAL VOLCANO
Taal Volcano is a large caldera filled by
Taal Lake in the Philippines. Located in
the province of Batangas about 50
kilometers south of Manila, the volcano
is the second most active volcano in the
country with 38 recorded historical
eruptions, all of which were
concentrated on Volcano Island, near
the middle of Taal Lake. The caldera
was formed by prehistoric eruptions
between 140,000 and 5,380. It is also
believed to be the smallest volcano in
the world.
COMPOSITE CONE VOLCANO
KĪLAUEA
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the
Hawaiian Islands. Located along the
southeastern shore of Hawai'i Island,
the volcano is between 210,000 and
280,000 years old and emerged above
sea level about 100,000 years ago.
Historically, it is the most active of the
five volcanoes that together form the
island of Hawaii. Kīlauea is also one of
the most active volcanoes on Earth,
with the most recent eruption
occurring in September 2023 when
multiple vents erupted lava for a week
within the volcano's summit caldera
inside Halemaʻumaʻu crater.
MAUNA LOA
Mauna Loa is one of five volcanoes that
form the Island of Hawaii in the U.S.
state of Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean.
Mauna Loa is Earth's largest active
volcano by both mass and volume. It was
historically considered to be the largest
volcano on Earth until Tamu Massif was
discovered to be larger. Mauna Loa is a
shield volcano with relatively gentle
slopes, and a volume estimated at
18,000 cubic miles, although its peak is
about 125 feet lower than that of its
neighbor, Mauna Kea. Lava eruptions
from Mauna Loa are silica-poor and
very fluid, and tend to be non-explosive.
SHIELD VOLCANO