This false-color satellite photo from 2014 shows the immense heat emanating from lava lakes at the summits of a pair of ...

African, and Antarctic plates. Though smaller in size, the minors are no less important when it comes to shaping the Earth. The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes ...

Mount Etna in Sicily, Italy, is an example of a composite volcano. Shield volcanoes do not have ... called tectonic plates, moving towards each other. Some volcanoes, like Mauna Loa in Hawaii ...

Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanoes worldwide, sits atop the convergent plate margin where the African Plate meets ...