It's called the Ring of Fire. The Ring of Fire and volcanic eruptions The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped region in the ...

Cinder cones are simple volcanoes that form where vents, or openings, spit out ash and lava. They can be cone- or oval-shaped, usually with a bowl-like crater at their summits. When a cinder cone ...

Hidden in the stormy Furious Fifties, the South Sandwich Islands generate spectacular cloud formations. Winds sweeping past ...

The Ring of Fire and volcanic eruptions The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped region in the Pacific about 25,000 miles long that contains more than 450 volcanoes, according to the National ...