Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

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Over millions of years, the Earth’s upper layers have performed a dance that has created mountains, volcanoes, continents, ridges and ocean trenches. Tectonic plates play a key role in this process.

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Lava is molten rock from a volcano that reaches the Earth’s surface. Liquid rock below the Earth’s surface is referred to as magma. More than 50% of the world’s active volcanoes above sea level ...

Volcanoes are a powerful force of nature. There are about 1500 active volcanoes on our planet right now. A volcano is an opening in the Earth's crust that allows lava and other volcanic matter to ...

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BOULDER, Colo. — It’s a 15-mile trek through rugged terrain for scientists to hike to the summit of the Makushin Volcano, in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. It’s a stratovolcano capable of the most violent ...