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A near-perfect cone rises above the fields at Mayon. Stromboli sends glowing fragments into the night above the sea. These photographs show what gives a volcano away, from a summit crater or a field of lava to the quiet outline of a mountain people see every day.

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Erta Ale
Erta Ale: Bright seams outline moving plates of dark crust on a lava lake in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression. The lake sits…
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Kilimanjaro
Kilimanjaro: An astronaut’s oblique view picks out the crater and ice on Kibo, Kilimanjaro’s highest cone. Together with…
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Nyiragongo
Nyiragongo: Red seams crack the dark surface of the lava lake in Nyiragongo’s summit crater in 2011. The steep-sided…
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Ol Doinyo Lengai
Ol Doinyo Lengai: The steep cone rises beyond Tanzania’s Lake Natron. Ol Doinyo Lengai is known for unusually fluid…
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Taal
Taal: An eruption column rises from Taal’s Volcano Island across the lake in January 2020. The lake fills much of an older…
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Whakaari / White Island
Whakaari / White Island: A turquoise crater lake steams beneath steep walls on Whakaari in this 2004 view. The volcano…
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Klyuchevskoy
Klyuchevskoy: Dark gullies cut across the snow on the slopes of Klyuchevskoy, also called Klyuchevskaya Sopka. The steep…
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Fagradalsfjall
Fagradalsfjall: Aerial photography shows a bright lava channel spreading into the Geldingadalir valley during the first…
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Mount Teide
Mount Teide: Teide’s pointed summit rises above the Cañadas caldera on Tenerife. The volcano and its neighbor Pico Viejo…
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Sakurajima
Sakurajima: Across Kagoshima Bay, a small plume marks Sakurajima’s summit area. The Japanese stratovolcano once stood on an…
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Arenal
Arenal: Dark blocks from Arenal’s 1968 lava flow sit in the foreground of this view in Costa Rica. The eruption began a…
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Mount Ruapehu
Mount Ruapehu: Te Wai ā-moe sits in a rocky summit crater on New Zealand’s Ruapehu. Several vents have shaped this broad…
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Mount Erebus
Mount Erebus: A plume rises above the snow-covered summit of Mount Erebus on Antarctica’s Ross Island. The crater is known…
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Mount Yasur
Mount Yasur: A short ash burst rises from the low cone of Mount Yasur on Tanna, Vanuatu. Small explosions can hurl…
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Kawah Ijen
Kawah Ijen: A turquoise, strongly acidic lake fills the summit crater of Kawah Ijen in East Java. The white plume at left…
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Volcán de Fuego
Volcán de Fuego: Seen from nearby Acatenango in Guatemala, Fuego has deep ravines on its eastern slope. They channel hot…
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Piton de la Fournaise
Piton de la Fournaise: In February 1981, a lava fountain lit a vent on Piton de la Fournaise on Réunion. This shield…

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